Yesaya 37:36

37:36 The Lord’s messenger ¹  went out and killed 185,000 troops ²  in the Assyrian camp. When they ³  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! ⁴ 

Yesaya 24:21

The Lord Will Become King

24:21 At that time ⁵  the Lord will punish ⁶ 

the heavenly forces in the heavens ⁷ 

and the earthly kings on the earth.

Yesaya 14:13

14:13 You said to yourself, ⁸ 

“I will climb up to the sky.

Above the stars of El ⁹ 

I will set up my throne.

I will rule on the mountain of assembly

on the remote slopes of Zaphon. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 63:9

63:9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. ¹¹ 

The messenger sent from his very presence ¹²  delivered them.

In his love and mercy he protected ¹³  them;

he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. ¹⁴ 

[37:36]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[37:36]  ² tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

[37:36]  ³ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[37:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”

[24:21]  ⁵ tn Or “in that day” (so KJV). The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[24:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “visit [in judgment].”

[24:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “the host of the height in the height.” The “host of the height/heaven” refers to the heavenly luminaries (stars and planets, see, among others, Deut 4:19; 17:3; 2 Kgs 17:16; 21:3, 5; 23:4-5; 2 Chr 33:3, 5) that populate the divine/heavenly assembly in mythological and prescientific Israelite thought (see Job 38:7; Isa 14:13).

[14:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “you, you said in your heart.”

[14:13]  ⁹ sn In Canaanite mythology the stars of El were astral deities under the authority of the high god El.

[14:13]  ¹⁰ sn Zaphon, the Canaanite version of Olympus, was the “mountain of assembly” where the gods met.

[63:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in all their distress, there was distress to him” (reading לוֹ [lo] with the margin/Qere).

[63:9]  ¹² tn Heb “the messenger [or “angel”] of his face”; NIV “the angel of his presence.”

[63:9]  sn This may refer to the “angel of God” mentioned in Exod 14:19, who in turn may be identical to the divine “presence” (literally, “face”) referred to in Exod 33:14-15 and Deut 4:37. Here in Isa 63 this messenger may be equated with God’s “holy Spirit” (see vv. 10-11) and “the Spirit of the Lord” (v. 14). See also Ps 139:7, where God’s “Spirit” seems to be equated with his “presence” (literally, “face”) in the synonymous parallelistic structure.

[63:9]  ¹³ tn Or “redeemed” (KJV, NAB, NIV), or “delivered.”

[63:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “all the days of antiquity”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “days of old.”