Ezekiel 34:10
34:10 This is what the sovereign
Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds;
the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.
Leviticus 26:13
26:13 I am the
Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves,
and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.
Isaiah 9:4
9:4 For their oppressive yoke
and the club that strikes their shoulders,
the cudgel the oppressor uses on them,
you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat.
Isaiah 10:27
10:27 At that time
the Lord will remove their burden from your shoulders,
and their yoke from your neck;
the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.
Isaiah 14:2-3
14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the
Lord’s land.
They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.
14:3 When the
Lord gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety,
and from the hard labor which you were made to perform,
Isaiah 52:2-3
52:2 Shake off the dirt!
Get up, captive Jerusalem!
Take off the iron chains around your neck,
O captive daughter Zion!
52:3 For this is what the Lord says:
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will not be redeemed for money.”
Jeremiah 2:20
The Lord Expresses His Exasperation at Judah’s Persistent Idolatry
2:20 “Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority
and refused to be subject to me.
You said, ‘I will not serve you.’
Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill
and under every green tree,
like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.
Jeremiah 30:8
30:8 When the time for them to be rescued comes,”
says the Lord who rules over all,
“I will rescue you from foreign subjugation.
I will deliver you from captivity.
Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.