40 You will live by the sword
    and you will serve(A) your brother.(B)
But when you grow restless,
    you will throw his yoke
    from off your neck.(C)

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40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

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48 therefore in hunger and thirst,(A) in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke(B) on your neck(C) until he has destroyed you.

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48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

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10 Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke(A) off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it,

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10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.

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“‘In that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty,
    ‘I will break the yoke(A) off their necks
and will tear off their bonds;(B)
    no longer will foreigners enslave them.(C)

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For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

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14 “My sins have been bound into a yoke[a];(A)
    by his hands they were woven together.
They have been hung on my neck,
    and the Lord has sapped my strength.
He has given me into the hands(B)
    of those I cannot withstand.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint He kept watch over my sins

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

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