Deu 4:20, 28:48, Isa 14:4-6, Jer 27:4, 7, 40:4 | ESV | STEP | But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace , out of Egypt , to be a people of his own inheritance , as you are this day .

o[See ver. 1 above]

Deuteronomy 4:20

20 But the Lord has taken you and ^abrought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, ^bto be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.

Deuteronomy 28:48

48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he ^cwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Isaiah 14:4-6

4 you will take up this ^dtaunt against the king of Babylon:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
^ethe insolent fury ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain} ceased!
5 The Lord has broken the ^gstaff of the wicked,
the ^hscepter of rulers,
6 ⁱthat struck the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.

Jeremiah 27:4

4 Give them this charge for their masters: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:

Jeremiah 27:7

7 ^jAll the nations shall serve him and ^khis son and ^lhis grandson, ^muntil the time of his own land comes. ⁿThen many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

Jeremiah 40:4

4 Now, behold, I release you today from ^othe chains on your hands. ^pIf it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well, ^qbut if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. ^rSee, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.