Isaiah 63:7-14

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.