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Nahum 1:13

Salvation

11 From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.

12 This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.

For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”

14 The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”

15 Look to the mountains— the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”
KJV
For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
WEB
Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
ASV
And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
DARBY
And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder.
BLB
And now I will break off his yoke from upon you, and your bonds I will tear away.”
ÅB
men nå vil jeg bryte det åk han la på deg, og sønderrive dine bånd.
OTB
Nå vil jeg bryte deres åk fra din nakke
og rive dine lenker i stykker.”
B1930
men nu vil jeg bryte det åk han la på dig, og sønderrive dine bånd.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 10:27

    On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.

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  • Isaiah 9:4

    For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.

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  • Jeremiah 2:20

    “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

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  • Isaiah 14:25

    I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

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  • Psalms 107:14

    He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

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  • Jeremiah 5:5

    I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

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  • Micah 5:5–6

    And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.

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