Discovery BoxIsaiah 17:6 
Context17:6 There will be some left behind,
like when an olive tree is beaten –
two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top,
four or five on its fruitful branches,”
says the Lord God of Israel.
Isaiah 25:12
Context25:12 The fortified city (along with the very tops of your 1 walls) 2 he will knock down,
he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground. 3
Isaiah 40:21
Context40:21 Do you not know?
Do you not hear?
Has it not been told to you since the very beginning?
Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?
Isaiah 47:6
Context47:6 I was angry at my people;
I defiled my special possession
and handed them over to you.
You showed them no mercy; 4
you even placed a very heavy burden on old people. 5
Isaiah 48:16
Context48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!
From the very first I have not spoken in secret;
when it happens, 6 I am there.”
So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. 7
Isaiah 63:9
Context63:9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. 8
The messenger sent from his very presence 9 delivered them.
In his love and mercy he protected 10 them;
he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. 11
1 sn Moab is addressed.
2 tn Heb “a fortification, the high point of your walls.”
3 tn Heb “he will bring [it] down, he will make [it] touch the ground, even to the dust.”
4 tn Or “compassion.”
5 tn Heb “on the old you made very heavy your yoke.”
6 tn Heb “from the time of its occurring.”
7 sn The speaker here is not identified specifically, but he is probably Cyrus, the Lord’s “ally” mentioned in vv. 14-15.
8 tn Heb “in all their distress, there was distress to him” (reading לוֹ [lo] with the margin/Qere).
9 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.
10 tn Or “redeemed” (KJV, NAB, NIV), or “delivered.”
11 tn Heb “all the days of antiquity”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “days of old.”
