Nahum 1:13-14

God protects those who place their total trust in Him! 

Through the power of the Holy Spirit He will break the bonds that hold you down and you will be free….truly free.

A yoke usually consisted of a single crossbar with leather or rope nooses placed around the animals’ necks. The yoke symbolizes submission to foreign oppression. Yahweh will break Assyria’s power and end its dominance of Judah. Faithlife Bible.

Here is an oracle of deliverance from God to His people. The present sense of safety and power that the enemy felt would not last; the past judgments of God on His nation would not continue. The Lord promised to break off the yoke that the enemy had placed on His people. NKJ Bible. 

Nahum 1:12–13 (NKJV)

¹² Thus says the Lord:

“Though they are safe, and likewise many,

Yet in this manner they will be cut down

When he passes through.

Though I have afflicted you,

I will afflict you no more;

¹³ For now I will break off his yoke from you,

And burst your bonds apart.”

Isaiah 10:17 (NKJV)

¹⁷ So the Light of Israel will be for a fire,

And his Holy One for a flame;

It will burn and devour

His thorns and his briers in one day.