Isaiah 9:4

For the yoke of his burden, the beam across his shoulder, 1 the rod of his oppressor, you have shattered as on the day of Midian. 1

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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.

In Context

3You have multiplied the nation; you have increased their joy. 1 They rejoice before you like the joy at harvest time, 1 as men rejoice when they divide the plunder. 1

5For every boot treading in the tumult 1 and the garments rolled in blood 1 will be burned, fuel for the fire. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:13I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you to walk standing up straight.

Judges 7:22When they blew the three hundred trumpets, Yahweh set every Midianite man's sword against his comrades and against all their army. The army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, near Tabbath.

Psalms 83:9Do to them as you did to Midian, 1 as you did to Sisera and to Jabin at the Kishon River. 1

Isaiah 10:5Woe to the Assyrian, the club of my anger, the rod by whom I wield my fury! 1

Isaiah 10:26Then Yahweh of hosts will wield a whip against them, as when he defeated Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise his rod over the sea and lift it up as he did in Egypt.

Isaiah 14:25I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot. 1 Then his yoke will be lifted from off them and his burden from off their shoulder.” 1 Then his yoke will be lifted from off them and his burden from off their shoulder.” 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 9:2-8

Judgment and Mercy; The Promise of Gospel Grace; The Promise of Messiah; The Titles of Messiah. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light… Read the whole commentary →

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