6 Isn’t this the fast that I have been choosing: to loose the bonds of injustice, and to untie the cords of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:6 Cross References - ISV
Nehemiah 5:10-12
10 I’m also lending money and grain, as are my fellow-Jews and my servants, but let’s not charge interest.
11 So today please restore to them their fields, vineyards, olive orchards, and homes, along with the one percent interest charge that you’ve assessed them on the grain, wine, and oil.”
12 They responded, “We will restore these things, and will assess no interest charges against them. We will do what you are requesting!”
So I called the priests and made them take an oath to fulfill this promise.
12 They responded, “We will restore these things, and will assess no interest charges against them. We will do what you are requesting!”
So I called the priests and made them take an oath to fulfill this promise.
Isaiah 58:9
9 Then you’ll call, and the LORD will answer; you’ll cry for help, and he’ll respond, ‘Here I am.’ “If you do away with the yoke among you, and pointing fingers and malicious talk;
Jeremiah 34:8-11
8 A Broken Agreement with Hebrew ServantsThis is this message from the LORD that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem proclaiming release for them.
9 Each person was to set free his male and female slaves who were Hebrews, so that no Jewish person would enslave his brother.
10 All the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant agreed that each would set his male and female slaves free so that they would not enslave them any longer. They obeyed and they released them.
11 But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves that they had set free, and they forced them to become male and female slaves.
Micah 3:2-4
2 you who despise good and love evil, who tear off the skin of my people, along with the flesh from their bones.
3 You eat the flesh of my people, flaying their skin from them. You break their bones, chopping them in pieces like meat for a pot, like meat destined for a soup kettle.’
4 “Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not listen to them. In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they were so wicked in what they were doing.”
1 Timothy 6:1
1 Duties of Servants and MastersAll who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their own masters as deserving of the highest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be discredited.