Discovery BoxIsaiah 8:18 
Context8:18 Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me 1 are reminders and object lessons 2 in Israel, sent from the Lord who commands armies, who lives on Mount Zion.
Isaiah 10:6
Context10:6 I sent him 3 against a godless 4 nation,
I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, 5
to take plunder and to carry away loot,
to trample them down 6 like dirt in the streets.
Isaiah 20:1
Context20:1 The Lord revealed the following message during the year in which King Sargon of Assyria sent his commanding general to Ashdod, and he fought against it and captured it. 7
Isaiah 39:1
Context39:1 At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been ill and had recovered.
Isaiah 48:16
Context48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!
From the very first I have not spoken in secret;
when it happens, 8 I am there.”
So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. 9
Isaiah 59:19
Context59:19 In the west, people respect 10 the Lord’s reputation; 11
in the east they recognize his splendor. 12
For he comes like a rushing 13 stream
driven on by wind sent from the Lord. 14
Isaiah 63:9
Context63:9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. 15
The messenger sent from his very presence 16 delivered them.
In his love and mercy he protected 17 them;
he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. 18
1 sn This refers to Shear-jashub (7:3) and Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (8:1, 3).
2 tn Or “signs and portents” (NAB, NRSV). The names of all three individuals has symbolic value. Isaiah’s name (which meant “the Lord delivers”) was a reminder that the Lord was the nation’s only source of protection; Shear-jashub’s name was meant, at least originally, to encourage Ahaz (see the note at 7:3), and Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz’s name was a guarantee that God would defeat Israel and Syria (see the note at 8:4). The word מוֹפֶת (mofet, “portent”) can often refer to some miraculous event, but in 20:3 it is used, along with its synonym אוֹת (’ot, “sign”) of Isaiah’s walking around half-naked as an object lesson of what would soon happen to the Egyptians.
3 sn Throughout this section singular forms are used to refer to Assyria; perhaps the king of Assyria is in view (see v. 12).
4 tn Or “defiled”; cf. ASV “profane”; NAB “impious”; NCV “separated from God.”
5 tn Heb “and against the people of my anger I ordered him.”
6 tn Heb “to make it [i.e., the people] a trampled place.”
7 tn Heb “In the year the commanding general came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it.”
sn This probably refers to the Assyrian campaign against Philistia in 712 or 711
8 tn Heb “from the time of its occurring.”
9 sn The speaker here is not identified specifically, but he is probably Cyrus, the Lord’s “ally” mentioned in vv. 14-15.
10 tc Heb “fear.” A few medieval Hebrew
11 tn Heb “and they fear from the west the name of the Lord.”
12 tn Heb “and from the rising of the sun his splendor.”
13 tn Heb “narrow”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “pent-up.”
14 tn Heb “the wind of the Lord drives it on.” The term רוּחַ (ruakh) could be translated “breath” here (see 30:28).
15 tn Heb “in all their distress, there was distress to him” (reading לוֹ [lo] with the margin/Qere).
16 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.
17 tn Or “redeemed” (KJV, NAB, NIV), or “delivered.”
18 tn Heb “all the days of antiquity”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “days of old.”
