A DELIVERER, rescuer, saviour — the active participle of yasha, 'to save,' the same root behind the names Joshua (Yehoshua) and Jesus (Yeshua) and the word Hosanna ('save now'). ⚠ It is the RESCUER-word of the book of Judges, where God raises up a moshia to deliver Israel from an oppressor (Judges 3:9, 15) — a temporary, Spirit-seized champion, not a king. Obadiah gives the shortest book in the Bible its last hope with it: 'and DELIVERERS will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau' (1:21) — plural, human, and answerable to the kingdom that 'belongs to Jehovah.' ⭐ The phrase ve-ein moshia, and there is no one to save, stands in five verses, and the first of them in the order of the books is Deuteronomy 22:27 — a betrothed girl who cried out in open country and was not heard. Every other occurrence is about nations, armies and cities: Israel under curse (Deuteronomy 28:29, now on these pages), Jabesh-gilead under siege (1 Samuel 11:3), Babylon abandoned by her enchanters (Isaiah 47:15), and David's enemies crying out unanswered (Psalm 18:42; none of the last three yet on these pages). The Hebrew gives one girl in a field the sentence it otherwise reserves for empires. → first discussed at Obadiah 1:21