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Isaiah 10:27
On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Isaiah delivers a word from the LORD of Hosts to Israel, sandwiched between the announcement that God will strike Assyria as He struck Midian (10:26) and the report of Assyria's marching route (10:28). The moment is the prophetic declaration that Assyrian dominion over Judah is ending.
The words — סֻבָּל (subbal, H5448) is the heavy tribute-load carried on the shoulder; עֹול (ol, H5923) is the yoke, the instrument that forces the neck to bear it. The image of the yoke breaking because the neck has grown too large is the verse's sharpest detail: the subject has outgrown its own subjugation.
The thread — Isaiah 9:4 uses the identical pair (burden and yoke) to describe the Midian victory; Isaiah 14:25 states the same removal explicitly of Assyria from "My people." Luke 4:18 inherits the broader motif of release to captives from Isaiah 61:1.
Why it lands — The verse is declarative, not hortatory; it asks the reader to accept that the same God who struck Midian and Egypt will break this yoke, and to stop carrying a burden that has already been removed.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 9:4 For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
- Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
- Isaiah 14:25 I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
- Psalms 105:15 “Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
- 1 John 2:20 You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
- Psalms 45:7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
- Psalms 20:6 Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.
- Nahum 1:9 Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
- 1 John 2:27 And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
- Psalms 2:1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?