Isaiah 63:8-9

63:8 He said, “Certainly they will be my people,

children who are not disloyal.” ¹ 

He became their deliverer.

63:9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. ² 

The messenger sent from his very presence ³  delivered them.

In his love and mercy he protected ⁴  them;

he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. ⁵ 

[63:8]  ¹ tn Heb “children [who] do not act deceitfully.” Here the verb refers to covenantal loyalty.

[63:9]  ² tn Heb “in all their distress, there was distress to him” (reading לוֹ [lo] with the margin/Qere).

[63:9]  ³ tn Heb “the messenger [or “angel”] of his face”; NIV “the angel of his presence.”

[63:9]  ⁴ tn Or “redeemed” (KJV, NAB, NIV), or “delivered.”

[63:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the days of antiquity”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “days of old.”