But if people are bound in chains,(A)
    held fast by cords of affliction,(B)

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And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

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“Let us break their chains(A)
    and throw off their shackles.”(B)

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Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

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to bind their kings with fetters,(A)
    their nobles with shackles of iron,(B)

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To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

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14 This is what the Lord says:

“The products(A) of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,[a]
    and those tall Sabeans(B)
they will come over to you(C)
    and will be yours;
they will trudge behind you,(D)
    coming over to you in chains.(E)
They will bow down before you
    and plead(F) with you, saying,
‘Surely God is with you,(G) and there is no other;
    there is no other god.(H)’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:14 That is, the upper Nile region

14 Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

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10 Yet she was taken captive(A)
    and went into exile.
Her infants were dashed(B) to pieces
    at every street corner.
Lots(C) were cast for her nobles,
    and all her great men were put in chains.(D)

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10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

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