Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”
And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”
When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land,
But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, a
Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time A
“Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashio
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the op