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For he said, “Surely they are my people,
    children who won’t act falsely.”
        And so he became their savior.
In all their distress he wasn’t distressed,[a]
    but the angel of his presence saved them;
in his acts of love[b] and in his acts[c] of pity he redeemed them;
    he carried them and lifted them up[d] all the days of old.

10 Yet they rebelled
    and grieved his Holy Spirit;
so he changed and became their enemy,
    and[e] he himself fought against them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:9 So 1QIsaa MT; some MTmss read he was distressed.
  2. Isaiah 63:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads in his love; LXX reads because of his love for them
  3. Isaiah 63:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads act of pity
  4. Isaiah 63:9 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT read lifted them up and carried them
  5. Isaiah 63:10 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks and