Isaiah 63
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.
2Wherefore art
thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the
winevat?
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.
4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year
of my redeemed is come.
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.
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.
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.
8For he said, Surely,
they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their
Saviour.
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.
10But they rebelled, and
grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy,
and himself fought against them.
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?
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?
13that led them through the depths, as a
horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not?
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.
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.
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.
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.
18Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our
adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19We are become as they over
whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.
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