What Does Isaiah 63:8 Mean in the King James?
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Here, deliverance follows the claim of belonging: “they are my people,” so he becomes their deliverer.
THE MEANING
You hear belonging declared first: “my people.” The children are described as people who will not deal falsely, and deliverance follows as the LORD’s action toward them. The verse holds fidelity, belonging, and being brought out in a single movement.
THE ROOT
מוֹשִׁיעַ
moshia
GROWS FROM
ישע
To deliver, bringing someone out of constriction into spaciousness.
“Saviour” can sound like a title, while מוֹשִׁיעַ (moshia) names the one who brings people out. Since the verse first calls them “my people,” deliverance appears as the active shape of that belonging.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun from the same root names the bringing out that the verse assigns to their deliverer.
moshia: Deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This is the same word used here: the one whose action carries the people out.
יְשַׁקֵּרוּ
yeshakkeru
GROWS FROM
שקר
To deal falsely, deceive, or betray trust.
“lie” in this verse is yeshakkeru. The Hebrew verb can describe acting falsely, beyond speaking a false sentence. Beside “my people,” it makes the children’s truthfulness a matter of relationship and trust.
ALSO GROWS
sheqer: Falsehood or deception
שֶׁקֶר
This noun shows the false dealing that the children are said not to practice.
meshaqqer: One who deals falsely
מְשַׁקֵּר
This form makes the relational force of “lie” visible: a person can act falsely toward someone, not only say something untrue.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance takes shape as the action of the one who claims a people as his own.
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,THE THREAD
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.The word translated “saved” is וַיּוֹשִׁיעֵם (vayyoshi’em), from the same root ישע (yasha, deliver) as מוֹשִׁיעַ (moshia, deliverer) here. The next verse shows what that deliverance does: he meets them in affliction, bears them, and carries them.
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