Isaiah 9:3-5

Modern English Version

³ You have multiplied the nation
    and increased the joy;
they rejoice before You
    according to the joy of harvest
and as men rejoice
    when they divide the spoil.
⁴ For You have broken the yoke of his burden
    and the bar of his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor
    as in the day of Midian’s defeat.
⁵ For all the sandals of the tramping warriors
    and all the garments rolled in blood
    shall be burned as fuel for the fire.