The pact between Ahaz and Assyria required the payment of tribute, and the vassalship of Judah to Assyria. The Lord informs Judah that this burden or yoke will be removed. The phrase "because of the anointing" may push this ultimate liberation into the far future, the eschatological future as Ludlow noted. The Messiah is the anointed one, and this reference may be to the liberation through the anointed one, or the Messiah. This is a final condition of the last days, as have been the other eschatological references in Isaiah's Messianic passages.