Nahum 1:13
Good News Translation
I will now end Assyria's power over you and break the chains that bind you."

New Revised Standard Version
And now I will break off his yoke from you and snap the bonds that bind you.”

Contemporary English Version
I'll snap your chains and set you free from the Assyrians."

New American Bible
Now I will break his yoke off of you, and tear off your bonds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now I will break in pieces his rod with which he struck thy back, and I will burst thy bonds asunder.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And now I will break in pieces his rod with which he struck thy back, and I will burst thy bonds asunder.

will I.

Isaiah 9:4 For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of Madian.

Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil.

Isaiah 14:25 So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder.

Jeremiah 2:20 Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.

Micah 5:5,6 And he shall stand, and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the height of the name of the Lord, his God: and they shall be converted, for now shall he be magnified even to the ends of the earth. . . .

will burst.

Psalm 107:14 And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.

Jeremiah 5:5 I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

Context
The Oracle of Nineveh
12Thus saith the Lord: Though they were perfect: and many of them so, yet thus shall they be cut off, and he shall pass: I have afflicted thee, and I will afflict thee no more. 13And now I will break in pieces his rod with which he struck thy back, and I will burst thy bonds asunder.14And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art disgraced.…
Cross References
Psalm 107:14
And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.

Isaiah 9:4
For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of Madian.

Isaiah 10:27
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil.

Isaiah 14:25
So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder.

Jeremiah 2:20
Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.

Nahum 1:12
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