Isaiah 63:7-14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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A Recital of Yahweh's Kindness to His People of Old. This passage seems to be a liturgy of thanksgiving: resemblance to Pss. is obvious.

I will recount Yahweh's acts of love, His deeds of renown, in accordance with all that Yahweh, great in goodness (cf. LXX), has done for us. He thought, Surely they are My people, sons that will not play Me false. So He became their deliverer in all their distress. Following LXX, connect the first four words of Isaiah 63:9 with Isaiah 63:8, and continue: No messenger or angel, but His own presence delivered them.) Yahweh Himself, no intermediary, delivered, ransomed, and led them with tender care. But, disappointing His thought (Isaiah 63:8), they were perverse, and pained His holy spirit (i.e. His manifested presence) so that He was compelled to fight against them. In their consequent distress Israel (cf. mg.) recalled His grace in times gone by; where, they lamented, is He who brought up (delete them with VSS and some MSS) from the sea the shepherd (mg.) of His flock? i.e. saved Moses from the Nile (cf. Isaiah 19:5 *). Where is He who put His holy spirit within the community, lending His wonder-working power to Moses-' hand and bringing, to His eternal glory, His people through the Red Sea, so that they did not stumble but walked as surely as a horse on the plain, and with the unerring step of cattle descending a hillside? Read with VSS, guided for caused to rest in Isaiah 63:14.

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Isaiah 63:7-14

7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.

9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherdb of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?

14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.