25:9 At that time they will say, 1
“Look, here 2 is our God!
We waited for him and he delivered us.
Here 3 is the Lord! We waited for him.
Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”
29:22 So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, says to the family of Jacob: 4
“Jacob will no longer be ashamed;
their faces will no longer show their embarrassment. 5
30:15 For this is what the master, the Lord, the Holy One of Israel says:
“If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; 6
if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, 7
but you are unwilling.
51:10 Did you not dry up the sea,
the waters of the great deep?
Did you not make 8 a path through the depths of the sea,
so those delivered from bondage 9 could cross over?
60:11 Your gates will remain open at all times;
they will not be shut during the day or at night,
so that the wealth of nations may be delivered,
with their kings leading the way. 10
63:9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. 11
The messenger sent from his very presence 12 delivered them.
In his love and mercy he protected 13 them;
he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. 14
1 tn Heb “and one will say in that day.”
2 tn Heb “this [one].”
3 tn Heb “this [one].”
4 tn Heb “So this is what the Lord says to the house of Jacob, the one who ransomed Abraham.” The relative pronoun must refer back to “the Lord,” not to the immediately preceding “Jacob.” It is uncertain to what event in Abraham’s experience this refers. Perhaps the name “Abraham” stands here by metonymy for his descendants through Jacob. If so, the Exodus is in view.
5 tn Heb “and his face will no longer be pale.”
6 tn Heb “in returning and in quietness you will be delivered.” Many English versions render the last phrase “shall be saved” or something similar (e.g., NAB, NASB, NRSV).
7 tn Heb “in quietness and in trust is your strength” (NASB and NRSV both similar).
8 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made…?”
9 tn Heb “the redeemed” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “the ransomed.”
10 tn Or “led in procession.” The participle is passive.
11 tn Heb “in all their distress, there was distress to him” (reading לוֹ [lo] with the margin/Qere).
12 tn Heb “the messenger [or “angel”] of his face”; NIV “the angel of his presence.”
sn This may refer to the “angel of God” mentioned in Exod 14:19, who in turn may be identical to the divine “presence” (literally, “face”) referred to in Exod 33:14-15 and Deut 4:37. Here in Isa 63 this messenger may be equated with God’s “holy Spirit” (see vv. 10-11) and “the Spirit of the Lord” (v. 14). See also Ps 139:7, where God’s “Spirit” seems to be equated with his “presence” (literally, “face”) in the synonymous parallelistic structure.
13 tn Or “redeemed” (KJV, NAB, NIV), or “delivered.”
14 tn Heb “all the days of antiquity”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “days of old.”