(15 quotes found)
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”
William Shakespeare
“Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, / Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.”
Bible
“He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke”
Robert Herrick
“Provoke/ The years to bring the inevitable yoke.”
William Wordsworth
“And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.”
“Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.”
“For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.”
“Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.”
“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.”
“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
