New Revised Standard Version
On that day his burden will be removed from your shoulder, and his yoke will be destroyed from your neck. He has gone up from Rimmon,

Contemporary English Version
Then they will no longer rule your nation. All will go well for you, and your burden will be lifted.

New American Bible
On that day, His burden shall be taken from your shoulder, and his yoke shattered from your neck.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil.

his burden

Isaiah 9:4 For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of Madian.

Isaiah 14:25 So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder.

2 Kings 18:13,14 In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them. . . .

Nahum 1:9-13 What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction. . . .

be taken away.

Isaiah 37:35 And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

2 Samuel 1:21 Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you, neither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the shield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.

Psalm 2:1-3,6 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Psalm 20:6 The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is in powers.

Psalm 45:7 Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Psalm 84:9 Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.

Psalm 89:20 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.

Psalm 105:15 Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

Psalm 132:10,17,18 For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thy anointed. . . .

Daniel 9:24-26 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed. . . .

Luke 4:18 The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

John 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jona. Thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter.

Acts 4:27 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

1 John 2:20,27 But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things. . . .