Isaiah 9:4

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Summary

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.

For thou hast broken

The staff

As in the day

Psalm 83:9

General references

Isaiah 14:5

Bible References

For thou hast broken

The Assyrians shall be destroyed in my land, and upon my mountains will I tread them under foot. Wherethrough his yoke shall come from you, and his burden shall be taken from your shoulders.

I was so wroth with my people, that I punished mine inheritance, and gave them into thy power. Nevertheless, thou showedest them no mercy, but even the very aged men of them, didst thou oppress right sore with thy yoke.

And with thy sword shalt thou live and shalt be thy brother's servant; But the time will come, when thou shalt get the mastery, and loose his yoke from off thy neck."

For I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I broke the bows of your yokes, and made you go upright.

For in that day, sayeth the LORD, I will take his yoke from off thy neck, and break thy bonds. They shall no more serve strange gods under him,

And now will I break his rod from thy back, and burst thy bonds in sunder."

The staff

Woe be also unto Assyria, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment.

When the LORD now shall bring thee to rest; from the travail, fear, and hard bondage that thou wast laden withal.

Then shall the Assyrians fear also because of the voice of the LORD, which shall smite him with the rod.

For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness.

As in the day

Moreover, the LORD of Hosts shall prepare a scourge for him, like as was the punishment of Midian upon the mount of Oreb. And he shall lift up his rod over the sea, as he did sometimes over the Egyptians.

And the children of Israel committed wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Midianites seven years.

And as the three hundred blew with trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword upon his neighbour, throughout all the host. And the host fled until they came to Bethshittah, to Zererah, and to the edge of Abelmeholah beside Tabbath.

Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their hosts with them, upon a fifteen thousand, which were all that were left of all the hosts of them of the east. And they that were slain were a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew swords.

But do thou to them as unto the Midianites, unto Sisera, and unto Jabin by the brook of Kishon,

General references

Doubtless the LORD hath broken the staff of the ungodly, and the scepter of the lordly.