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# For the yoke of his burden ... you have broken to pieces as on the day of Midian
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"For as on the day when you defeated the Midianites you will set the people of Israel free from being slaves to their oppressors like a person removes a yoke from the shoulders of an animal"
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# For the yoke of his burden ... his shoulder ... his oppressor
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Isaiah speaks of the people of Israel as if they were one man. Alternate translation: "For the yoke of their burden ... their shoulders ... their oppressor"
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# the beam across his shoulder
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The beam is the part of the yoke that goes over the shoulders of the ox.
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# beam
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Another possible meaning is "staff," a long piece of wood that a person uses to beat the oxen so they will work and a symbol of one person's power to rule other people.
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# the rod of his oppressor
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Isaiah speaks of the power the oppressor has over the people of Judah as if it were the piece of wood used by a person to beat oxen so they will work. |