For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more enslave them:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Strangers. Idols. The people were not so prone to worship them. Yet the Jews were almost constantly subject to foreigners (Calmet) despectissima pars servientium, Macedon bus invalidis.sibi ipsis reges imposuere. (Tacitus, Hist. 5.)
Christ granted a more perfect liberty to the faithful, John viii. 33. (Calmet)