Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
he was afflicted—English Version reads the Hebrew as the Keri (Margin), does, "There was affliction to Him." But the Chetib (text) reads, "There was no affliction" (the change in Hebrew being only of one letter); that is, "In all their affliction there was no (utterly overwhelming) affliction" [GESENIUS]; or, for "Hardly had an affliction befallen them, when the angel of His presence saved them" [MAURER]; or, as best suits the parallelism, "In all their straits there was no straitness in His goodness to them" [HOUBIGANT], (Judges 10:16; Micah 2:7; II Corinthians 6:12).
angel of his presence—literally, "of His face," that is, who stands before Him continually; Messiah (Exodus 14:19; Exodus 23:20-21; Proverbs 8:30), language applicable to no creature (Exodus 32:34; Exodus 33:2, Exodus 33:14; Numbers 20:16; Malachi 3:1).
bare them— (Isaiah 46:3-4; Isaiah 40:11; Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 32:11-12).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 63:9:
Exodus 13:21-22
Psalms 34:7
Isaiah 40:11
Isaiah 46:3
Isaiah 53:4
Jeremiah 2:6
Hosea 11:3
Micah 2:13
Malachi 3:1
1 Corinthians 10:9
Colossians 1:24
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