Isaiah 9:4
For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat.
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- Isa 14:25 : 25 I will break Assyria in my land, I will trample them underfoot on my hills. Their yoke will be removed from my people, the burden will be lifted from their shoulders.
- Isa 10:26-27 : 26 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is about to beat them with a whip, similar to the way he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will use his staff against the sea, lifting it up as he did in Egypt. 27 At that time the LORD will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.
- Nah 1:13 : 13 And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”
- Isa 10:5 : 5 The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
- Isa 54:14 : 14 You will be reestablished when I vindicate you. You will not experience oppression; indeed, you will not be afraid. You will not be terrified, for nothing frightening will come near you.
- Judg 7:22-25 : 22 When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the LORD caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords throughout the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath. 23 Israelites from Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh answered the call and chased the Midianites. 24 Gideon Appeases the Ephraimites Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced,“Go down and head off the Midianites. Take control of the fords of the streams all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.” When all the Ephraimites had assembled, they took control of the fords all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River. 25 They captured the two Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb. They executed Oreb on the rock of Oreb and Zeeb in the winepress of Zeeb. They chased the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now on the other side of the Jordan River.
- Judg 8:10-12 : 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. 11 Gideon went up the road of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and ambushed the surprised army. 12 When Zebah and Zalmunna ran away, Gideon chased them and captured the two Midianite kings, Zebah and Zalmunna. He had surprised their entire army.
- Ps 83:9-9 : 9 Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! 10 They were destroyed at En Dor; their corpses were like manure on the ground. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
- Ps 125:3 : 3 Indeed, the scepter of a wicked king will not settle upon the allotted land of the godly. Otherwise the godly might do what is wrong.
- Isa 14:3-5 : 3 When the LORD gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety, and from the hard labor which you were made to perform, 4 you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words:“Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased! 5 The LORD has broken the club of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.
- Gen 27:40 : 40 You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”
- Lev 26:13 : 13 I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.
- Judg 6:1-6 : 1 Oppression and Confrontation The Israelites did evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD turned them over to Midian for seven years. 2 The Midianites overwhelmed Israel. Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds. 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them. 4 They invaded the land and devoured its crops all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, and they took away the sheep, oxen, and donkeys. 5 When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land. 6 Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help.
- Jer 30:8 : 8 When the time for them to be rescued comes,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. I will deliver you from captivity. Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.
- Isa 30:31-32 : 31 Indeed, the LORD’s shout will shatter Assyria; he will beat them with a club. 32 Every blow from his punishing cudgel, with which the LORD will beat them, will be accompanied by music from the tambourine and harp, and he will attack them with his weapons.
- Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.
- Isa 49:26 : 26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. Then all humankind will recognize that I am the LORD, your deliverer, your protector, the Powerful One of Jacob.”
- Isa 51:13 : 13 Why do you forget the LORD, who made you, who stretched out the sky and founded the earth? Why do you constantly tremble all day long at the anger of the oppressor, when he makes plans to destroy? Where is the anger of the oppressor?
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9 Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
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4 The bows of warriors are shattered, but those who stumbled have taken on strength.
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9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
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40 You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.
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23 I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.”
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6 Your right hand, O LORD, was majestic in power, your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.
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7 I saw the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian were shaking.
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13 I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.
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17 “Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,
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14 Then I cut the second staff“Union” in two in order to annul the covenant of brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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31 Indeed, the LORD’s shout will shatter Assyria; he will beat them with a club.
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4 He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.
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4 The LORD is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.”
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5 At that time, I will destroy the military power of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
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11 You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.