¹ tn Heb “yoke.”

¹ tn Heb “made our yoke burdensome.”

¹ tn Heb “made our yoke burdensome.”

³ tn Heb “his yoke is upon my neck.”

² tn Heb “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.”

² sn Here the yoke figuratively represents the burdensome nature of slavery.

¹ tn Heb “my transgressions are bound with a yoke.”

² tn Heb “on the old you made very heavy your yoke.”

¹ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

² tn Heb “but I will add to your yoke.”

² tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

² sn Five yoke of oxen. This was a wealthy man because the normal farmer had one or two yoke of oxen.

³ tn Heb “the yoke bars of wood you have broken, but you have made in its stead yoke bars of iron.”

⁴ tn Heb “have broken the yoke and torn off the yoke ropes.” Cf. Jer 2:20 and the note there.

¹ tn Heb “and now my father placed upon you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke.”

¹ tn Heb “and now my father placed upon you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke.”

² tn Heb “you broke your yoke…tore off your yoke ropes.” The metaphor is that of a recalcitrant ox or heifer which has broken free from its master.

¹ tc The Hebrew text reads, “I will make heavy your yoke,” but many medieval Hebrew mss and other ancient textual witnesses have, “my father made heavy your yoke.”

² tn Heb “An iron yoke I have put on the necks of all these nations.”

² tn Heb “Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter upon us.”