Nahum 1:13 “For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shac…”

Nahum 1:13

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For nowe I will breake his yoke from thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

Darby Translation

And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.

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Cross references

“will I”

Isaiah 10:27 Isaiah 9:4 Jeremiah 2:20 Isaiah 14:25 Micah 5:5 Micah 5:6

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 9:4 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 2:20 · BSB

“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.

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.”

Micah 5:5 · BSB

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.

Micah 5:6 · BSB

And they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.

“will burst”

Psalm 107:14 Jeremiah 5:5

Psalm 107:14 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 5:5 · BSB

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.

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

In context

12This 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.

14The 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.”

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