The Book of Isaiah
63: 1Who 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. 63:2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel,
and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat? 63:3I 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. 63:4For the day of vengeance was
in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 63:5And 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. 63:6And I trod down
the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out
their lifeblood on the earth. 63:7I 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. 63:8For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not
deal falsely: so he was their Saviour. 63:9In 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. 63:10But they rebelled,
and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and
himself fought against them. 63:11Then 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?
63:12that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the
waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 63:13that led them
through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not? 63:14As
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. 63:15Look 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. 63:16For 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. 63:17O 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. 63:18Thy holy people
possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
63:19We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not
called by thy name.