Genesis 27:40

New International Version

⁴⁰You will live by the sword
    and you will serve^(A) your brother.^(B)
But when you grow restless,
    you will throw his yoke
    from off your neck.^(C)”

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Jeremiah 2:20

New International Version

²⁰“Long ago you broke off your yoke^(A)
    and tore off your bonds;^(B)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’^(C)
Indeed, on every high hill^(D)
    and under every spreading tree^(E)
    you lay down as a prostitute.^(F)

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Jeremiah 28:4

New International Version

⁴I will also bring back to this place Jehoiachin^[a]^(A) son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and all the other exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the Lord, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”^(B)

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 28:4 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin

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Jeremiah 28:11

New International Version

¹¹and he said^(A) before all the people, “This is what the Lord says: ‘In the same way I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations within two years.’” At this, the prophet Jeremiah went on his way.

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Ezekiel 34:27

New International Version

²⁷The trees will yield their fruit^(A) and the ground will yield its crops;^(B) the people will be secure^(C) in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke^(D) and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.^(E)