מוֹסֵר

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!

“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.

It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;