Isaiah 9:4 “For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burde…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

World English Bible

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

American Standard Version

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.

Geneva Bible 1599

For the yoke of their burthen, and the staffe of their shoulder and the rod of their oppressour hast thou broken as in the day of Midian.

Darby Translation

For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

Young's Literal Translation

Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as [in] the day of Midian.

Bible in Basic English

For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.

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Cross references

“For thou hast broken”

Isaiah 14:25 Jeremiah 30:8 Nahum 1:13 Genesis 27:40 Leviticus 26:13 Isaiah 47:6

Isaiah 14:25 · BSB

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.”

Jeremiah 30:8 · BSB

On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.

Nahum 1:13 · BSB

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

Genesis 27:40 · BSB

You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

Leviticus 26:13 · BSB

I 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.

Isaiah 47:6 · BSB

I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

“the staff”

Isaiah 14:3–5 Isaiah 10:5 Psalm 125:3 Isaiah 10:27 Isaiah 30:31 Isaiah 30:32

Isaiah 14:3–5 · BSB

On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

Isaiah 10:5 · BSB

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Psalm 125:3 · BSB

For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

Isaiah 10:27 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 30:31 · BSB

For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.

Isaiah 30:32 · BSB

And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.

“as in the day”

Judges 6:1–6 Judges 7:22–25 Judges 8:10–12 Psalm 83:9–11 Isaiah 10:26

Judges 6:1–6 · BSB

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

Judges 7:22–25 · BSB

And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.

Judges 8:10–12 · BSB

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.

Psalm 83:9–11 · BSB

Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

Isaiah 10:26 · BSB

And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.

Also

Isaiah 54:14 Isaiah 49:26 Isaiah 51:13

Isaiah 54:14 · BSB

In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you.

Isaiah 49:26 · BSB

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Isaiah 51:13 · BSB

But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

5For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

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