His burden shall be taken away – The oppressions and exactions of the Assyrian.

From off your shoulder – We …

The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing ... —The English, as it stands, is scarcely intelligible, but suggests the id…

And it shall come to pass in that day. It is uncertain whether he now speaks of the deliverance that took place under Zerubbabel ([Referen…

And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden
shall be taken away from off your shoulder<…

Through our afflictions, we may learn not to place our confidence in created things. Only those who return to him in truth, not in pretense and out…

1. Woe to them that make wicked laws. Here he begins to threaten the foreign enemies who persecute them physically.