² tn Heb “rescue.”

² tn Or “wanting to rescue Paul.”

² tn Heb “in your vindication rescue me.”

² tn Heb “[the one who] rescues.” The substantival participle in the Hebrew text characterizes God as one who typically rescues the oppressed.

² tn Heb “and will you be rescued?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No, of course not!”

³ tn Heb “rescue my life from the wicked [one] [by] your sword.”

² tn Heb “and will you be rescued?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No, of course not!”

¹ tn Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyrian onslaught, how can the people of Jerusalem possibly think the Lord will rescue them?

² tn Or “may be rescued.” The lines are actually reversed in the Hebrew text: “So that the ones you love may be rescued, deliver by your power and answer me.”

³ tn Or “may be rescued.” The lines are actually reversed in the Hebrew text, “So that the ones you love may be rescued, deliver by your power and answer me.”

² tn Heb “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”

¹ tn Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyrian onslaught, how can the people of Jerusalem possibly think the Lord will rescue them?

¹ tn Heb “redeem” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. NCV, TEV “save,” CEV “I would have rescued them.”

³ tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”

¹ tn Heb “But I will rescue you on that day” (referring to the same day mentioned in the preceding verse).

² tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”

¹ tn Or “redeem.” See the note at 41:14. Cf. NCV “saved you”; CEV “rescued you”; NLT “ransomed you.”

³ tn Heb “they became loot, and there was no one rescuing, plunder, and there was no one saying, ‘Bring back’.”

¹ tn Heb “in your vindication rescue me and deliver me.” Ps 31:1 omits “and deliver me.”

³ tn Heb “tearing and there is no one rescuing.” The verbal form translated “tearing” is a singular active participle.