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I looked, but there was no one to help;
I was shocked because there was no one offering support.[a]
So my right arm accomplished deliverance;
my raging anger drove me on.[b]
I trampled nations in my anger;
I made them drunk[c] in my rage;
I splashed their blood on the ground.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:5 sn See Isa 59:16 for similar language.
  2. Isaiah 63:5 tn Heb “and my anger, it supported me”; NIV “my own wrath sustained me.”
  3. Isaiah 63:6 sn See Isa 49:26 and 51:23 for similar imagery.
  4. Isaiah 63:6 tn Heb “and I brought down to the ground their juice.” “Juice” refers to their blood (see v. 3).

I looked, but there was no one(A) to help,
    I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm(B) achieved salvation for me,
    and my own wrath sustained me.(C)
I trampled(D) the nations in my anger;
    in my wrath I made them drunk(E)
    and poured their blood(F) on the ground.”

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