Nahum 1:13

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And now I break his rod from off thee, And thy bands I do draw away.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Nahum 1:13 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
  2. Psalms 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
  3. Isaiah 9:4For 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.
  4. Isaiah 10:27On 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.
  5. Isaiah 14:25I 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.”
  6. 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.
  7. Jeremiah 5:5I 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.
  8. Micah 5:5And 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.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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