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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 63:9 - 63:9
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he was afflicted - English Version reads the Hebrew as the Keri (Margin), does, “There was affliction to Him.” But the Chetib (text) reads, “There was no affliction” (the change in Hebrew being only of one letter); that is, “In all their affliction there was no (utterly overwhelming) affliction” [Gesenius]; or, for “Hardly had an affliction befallen them, when the angel of His presence saved them” [Maurer]; or, as best suits the parallelism, “In all their straits there was no straitness in His goodness to them” [Houbigant], (Jdg 10:16; Mic 2:7; 2Co 6:12).
angel of his presence - literally, “of His face,” that is, who stands before Him continually; Messiah (Exo 14:19; Exo 23:20, Exo 23:21; Pro 8:30), language applicable to no creature (Exo 32:34; Exo 33:2, Exo 33:14; Num 20:16; Mal 3:1).
bare them - (Isa 46:3, Isa 46:4; Isa 40:11; Exo 19:4; Deu 32:11, Deu 32:12).