Nahum 1:13
Now, therefore, will I break his yoke from off thee,—and, thy fetters, will I tear off.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 26:13I—Yahweh, am your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; so I brake in pieces the staves of your yoke, and caused you to walk, erect.
Isaiah 9:4For, the yoke of their burden, The cross-bar of their shoulder, The goad of their driver, Hast thou broken, as in the day of Midian.
Isaiah 14:25That I will break in pieces the Assyrian in my land, Yea upon my mountains, will I tread him underfoot,—So shall be removed from off them his yoke, And his burden, from off their shoulder shall be removed.
Jeremiah 5:5I will betake me unto the great men, and will speak, with them! For, they, know the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God! Yea but, they, with one accord have broken the yoke, torn off the bands.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 1:10-15
Destruction of the Assyrian Army; Overthrow of Sennacherib. ( b. c. 710.) 9 What do ye imagine against the Lord ? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord , a wicked counsellor. 12 Thus saith the Lord ; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when… Read the whole commentary →