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Isaiah 63:5

King James Version (KJV)

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Isaiah 63:5

Verse 5 of 19

Scripture focus

And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered that [there was] none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

Isaiah 63:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 63:5

Theological / Devotional

None to help. Literally, “no helper.” Instead, the Dead Sea scroll 1QIs reads “no man.”

Wondered. Heb. shamam, translated “astonished” in Dan. 8:27. The figure here employed heightens the desperateness of the situation. Messiah took notice of the pitiful situation in which man found himself and determined personally to rescue him from his desperate plight.

Mine own arm. See on chs. 40:10; 51:9; 52:10.

Fury. Heb. chemah, a common OT word used 81 times to describe divine indignation. On the nature of God’s wrath see on 2 Kings 13:3.

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