46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, 1
all you who are left from the family of Israel, 2
you who have been carried from birth, 3
you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. 4
63:9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. 5
The messenger sent from his very presence 6 delivered them.
In his love and mercy he protected 7 them;
he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. 8
1 tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”
2 tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”
3 tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”
4 tn Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”
5 tn Heb “in all their distress, there was distress to him” (reading לוֹ [lo] with the margin/Qere).
6 tn Heb “the messenger [or “angel”] of his face”; NIV “the angel of his presence.”
7 tn Or “redeemed” (KJV, NAB, NIV), or “delivered.”
8 tn Heb “all the days of antiquity”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “days of old.”