25 in order to break the As·syrʹi·an* in my land+ and that I may tread him down on my own mountains;+ and that his yoke may actually depart from upon them and that his very load may depart from upon their* shoulder.”+

8 “And it must occur in that day,” is the utterance of Jehovah of armies, “that I shall break one’s yoke from off your neck, and your bands I shall tear in two,+ and no more will strangers exploit him as a servant.

4 With the ropes of earthling man* I kept drawing them, with the cords of love,+ so that I became to them as those lifting off a yoke on their jaws,+ and gently I brought food to [each] one.+