For now will I break his yoke from off thee
The Assyrian yoke from off the Jews, who had been obliged to pay
tribute, or send presents to the king of Assyria, from the times
of Ahaz; and were in bondage, while shut up and besieged by his
army, and the country all around laid under contribution; from
all which they were delivered when his army was in that dreadful
manner destroyed: and will burst thy bonds in
sunder;
and set thee entirely free from the bondage of the enemy, and all
fear of it; a type of that freedom from the yoke of sin, Satan,
and the law, which the people of God have by Jesus Christ.