Isaiah 35:9

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,

Isaiah 41:14

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 

Isaiah 43:1

The Lord Will Rescue His People

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.

Isaiah 43:14

The Lord Will Do Something New

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 

Isaiah 44:6

The Absurdity of Idolatry

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.

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord Empowers Cyrus

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 

Isaiah 48:17

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.

Isaiah 48:20

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.

Isaiah 49:26

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 

Isaiah 51:10

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?

Isaiah 54:5

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.”

Isaiah 60:16

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 

Isaiah 63:9

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 

Isaiah 63:16

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 

[35:9]  ¹ tn Heb “will go up on it”; TEV “will pass that way.”

[41:14]  ² tn Heb “O worm Jacob” (NAB, NIV). The worm metaphor suggests that Jacob is insignificant and despised.

[41:14]  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.”

[41:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “your kinsman redeemer.” A גָּאַל (ga’al, “kinsman redeemer”) was a protector of the extended family’s interests.

[41:14]  ⁵ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[43:1]  ³ tn Or “redeem.” See the note at 41:14. Cf. NCV “saved you”; CEV “rescued you”; NLT “ransomed you.”

[43:14]  ⁴ tn Or “kinsman redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[43:14]  ⁵ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[43:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I bring down [as] fugitives all of them.”

[43:14]  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.

[44:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “his kinsman redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[44:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[44:24]  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.

[48:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[48:17]  ⁸ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[48:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

[48:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:26]  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.

[49:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).

[49:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:26]  ¹² tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.

[51:10]  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…?”

[51:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the redeemed” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “the ransomed.”

[54:5]  ¹¹ tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[54:5]  ¹² sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[60:16]  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.

[60:16]  ¹³ tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[60:16]  ¹⁴ sn See 1:24 and 49:26.

[63:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “in all their distress, there was distress to him” (reading לוֹ [lo] with the margin/Qere).

[63:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the messenger [or “angel”] of his face”; NIV “the angel of his presence.”

[63:9]  ¹⁵ tn Or “redeemed” (KJV, NAB, NIV), or “delivered.”

[63:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “all the days of antiquity”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “days of old.”

[63:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “our protector [or “redeemer”] from antiquity [is] your name.”