Isaiah 63
1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that
is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I that
speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that
treadeth in the winevat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with
me: yea, I trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their
lifeblood [ is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none
to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it
upheld me.
6 And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath,
and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
7 I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah, [and] the praises of
Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great
goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to
his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely:
so he was their Saviour.
9 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.
10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be
their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where
is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where
is he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?
12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided
the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they
stumbled not?
14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them
to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of
thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and
thy compassions are restrained toward me.
16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not
acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting
is thy name.
17 O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our
heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine
inheritance.
18 Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have
trodden down thy sanctuary.
19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not
called by thy name.