35:9 No lions will be there,
no ferocious wild animals will be on it 1 –
they will not be found there.
Those delivered from bondage will travel on it,
41:14 Don’t be afraid, despised insignificant Jacob, 2
men of 3 Israel.
I am helping you,” says the Lord,
your protector, 4 the Holy One of Israel. 5
43:1 Now, this is what the Lord says,
the one who created you, O Jacob,
and formed you, O Israel:
“Don’t be afraid, for I will protect 6 you.
I call you by name, you are mine.
43:14 This is what the Lord says,
your protector, 7 the Holy One of Israel: 8
“For your sake I send to Babylon
and make them all fugitives, 9
turning the Babylonians’ joyful shouts into mourning songs. 10
44:6 This is what the Lord, Israel’s king, says,
their protector, 11 the Lord who commands armies:
“I am the first and I am the last,
there is no God but me.
44:24 This is what the Lord, your protector, 12 says,
the one who formed you in the womb:
“I am the Lord, who made everything,
who alone stretched out the sky,
who fashioned the earth all by myself, 13
48:17 This is what the Lord, your protector, 14 says,
the Holy One of Israel: 15
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you how to succeed,
who leads you in the way you should go.
48:20 Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Babylonians!
Announce it with a shout of joy!
Make this known!
Proclaim it throughout the earth! 16
Say, ‘The Lord protects 17 his servant Jacob.
49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;
they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. 18
Then all humankind 19 will recognize that
I am the Lord, your deliverer,
your protector, 20 the powerful ruler of Jacob.” 21
51:10 Did you not dry up the sea,
the waters of the great deep?
Did you not make 22 a path through the depths of the sea,
so those delivered from bondage 23 could cross over?
54:5 For your husband is the one who made you –
the Lord who commands armies is his name.
He is your protector, 24 the Holy One of Israel. 25
He is called “God of the entire earth.”
60:16 You will drink the milk of nations;
you will nurse at the breasts of kings. 26
Then you will recognize that I, the Lord, am your deliverer,
your protector, 27 the powerful ruler of Jacob. 28
63:9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. 29
The messenger sent from his very presence 30 delivered them.
In his love and mercy he protected 31 them;
he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. 32
63:16 For you are our father,
though Abraham does not know us
and Israel does not recognize us.
You, Lord, are our father;
you have been called our protector from ancient times. 33
1 tn Heb “will go up on it”; TEV “will pass that way.”
2 tn Heb “O worm Jacob” (NAB, NIV). The worm metaphor suggests that Jacob is insignificant and despised.
3 tn On the basis of the parallelism (note “worm”) and an alleged Akkadian cognate, some read “louse” or “weevil.” Cf. NAB “O maggot Israel”; NRSV “you insect Israel.”
4 tn Heb “your kinsman redeemer.” A גָּאַל (ga’al, “kinsman redeemer”) was a protector of the extended family’s interests.
5 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
3 tn Or “redeem.” See the note at 41:14. Cf. NCV “saved you”; CEV “rescued you”; NLT “ransomed you.”
4 tn Or “kinsman redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
5 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
6 tn Heb “and I bring down [as] fugitives all of them.”
7 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “as for the Babylonians, in ships their joyful shout.” This might be paraphrased, “even the Babylonians in the ships [over which] they joyfully shouted.” The point would be that the Lord caused the Babylonians to flee for safety in the ships in which they took such great pride. A slight change in vocalization yields the reading “into mourning songs,” which provides a good contrast with “joyful shout.” The prefixed bet (בְּ) would indicate identity.
5 tn Heb “his kinsman redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
6 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
7 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has “Who [was] with me?” The marginal reading (Qere) is “from with me,” i.e., “by myself.” See BDB 87 s.v. II אֵת 4.c.
7 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
8 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
8 tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).
9 tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.
9 sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness.
10 tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).
11 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
12 tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.
10 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made…?”
11 tn Heb “the redeemed” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “the ransomed.”
11 tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
12 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
12 sn The nations and kings are depicted as a mother nursing her children. Restored Zion will be nourished by them as she receives their wealth as tribute.
13 tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
14 sn See 1:24 and 49:26.
13 tn Heb “in all their distress, there was distress to him” (reading לוֹ [lo] with the margin/Qere).
14 tn Heb “the messenger [or “angel”] of his face”; NIV “the angel of his presence.”
15 tn Or “redeemed” (KJV, NAB, NIV), or “delivered.”
16 tn Heb “all the days of antiquity”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “days of old.”
14 tn Heb “our protector [or “redeemer”] from antiquity [is] your name.”