For (A)You will break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders,
The rod of their (B)oppressor, as [a]at the battle of (C)Midian.

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  1. Isaiah 9:4 Lit in the day of Midian

that you will (A)take up this [a]taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,

“How (B)the oppressor has ceased,
And how the [b]onslaught has ceased!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:4 Or proverb
  2. Isaiah 14:4 As in DSS and ancient versions; MT uncertain

Let the [a]outcasts of Moab stay with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”
For the oppressor has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
(A)Oppressors have been removed from the land.

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  1. Isaiah 16:4 As in most ancient versions; MT My outcasts, as for Moab

13 That you have (A)forgotten the Lord your Maker,
Who (B)stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth,
That you (C)fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor,
As he makes ready to destroy?
And where is the rage of the (D)oppressor?

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14 In (A)righteousness you will be established;
You will be far from (B)oppression, for you will (C)not fear;
And from (D)terror, for it will not come near you.

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