20 For long ago I[a] broke your yoke;(A)
I[b] tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree(B)
you lay down like a prostitute.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:20 LXX reads you
  2. 2:20 LXX reads you

I will go to the powerful
and speak to them.
Surely they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.(A)
However, these also had broken the yoke
and torn off the chains.(B)

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On that day—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies—
I will break his yoke from your neck(A)
and tear off your chains,(B)
and strangers will never again enslave him.(C)

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