13 (A)The Lord goes out like a mighty man,
    like a man of war (B)he stirs up his zeal;
he cries out, (C)he shouts aloud,
    he shows himself mighty against his foes.

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16 (A)He saw that there was no man,
    and wondered that there was no one to intercede;
then his own arm brought him salvation,
    and his righteousness upheld him.
17 (B)He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
    and a helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
    and wrapped himself in (C)zeal as a cloak.
18 (D)According to their deeds, so will he repay,
    wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;
    (E)to the coastlands he will render repayment.
19 (F)So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west,
    and his glory from the rising of the sun;
(G)for he will come like a rushing stream,[a]
    which the wind of the Lord drives.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:19 Hebrew a narrow river

65 Then the Lord (A)awoke as from sleep,
    like a strong man shouting because of wine.

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“Therefore (A)wait for me,” declares the Lord,
    “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey.
For my decision is (B)to gather nations,
    to assemble kingdoms,
to pour out upon them my indignation,
    all my burning anger;
for in the fire of my jealousy
    (C)all the earth shall be consumed.

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The Song of Moses

15 Then Moses and the people of Israel (A)sang this song to the Lord, saying,

(B)“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
    the horse and his rider[a] he has thrown into the sea.
(C)The Lord is my strength and my (D)song,
    and he has become (E)my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
    (F)my father's God, and (G)I will exalt him.
The Lord is (H)a man of war;
    (I)the Lord is his name.

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  1. Exodus 15:1 Or its chariot; also verse 21

18 (A)Neither their silver nor their gold
    shall be able to deliver them
    on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
(B)In the fire of his jealousy,
    (C)all the earth shall be consumed;
(D)for a full and sudden end
    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

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God's Wrath Against Nineveh

(A)The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
    the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
(B)the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
    and (C)keeps wrath for his enemies.

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Judgment on Israel's Neighbors

And he said:

(A)“The Lord roars from Zion
    and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
(B)the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
    and the (C)top of (D)Carmel withers.”

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10 (A)They shall go after the Lord;
    (B)he will roar like a lion;
when he roars,
    his children shall come trembling (C)from the west;

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30 “You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:

(A)“‘The Lord will roar from on high,
    and from his holy habitation utter his voice;
he will roar mightily against his fold,
    (B)and shout, like those who tread grapes,
    against all the inhabitants of the earth.

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The Lord's Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this who comes from (A)Edom,
    in crimsoned garments from (B)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
    (C)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”

Why is your (D)apparel red,
    and your garments like his (E)who treads in the winepress?

(F)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    (G)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood[a] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.
(H)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption[b] had come.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6
  2. Isaiah 63:4 Or the year of my redeemed

For thus the Lord said to me,
(A)“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
    and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
    or daunted at their noise,
(B)so the Lord of hosts will come down
    to fight[a] on Mount Zion and on its hill.

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  1. Isaiah 31:4 The Hebrew words for hosts and to fight sound alike

11 O Lord, (A)your hand is lifted up,
    but (B)they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
    Let (C)the fire for your adversaries consume them.

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The Lord is at your (A)right hand;
    he will (B)shatter kings on (C)the day of his wrath.
He will (D)execute judgment among the nations,
    (E)filling them with corpses;
he will (F)shatter chiefs[a]
    over the wide earth.

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  1. Psalm 110:6 Or the head

14 You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
    (A)your bones shall flourish like the grass;
and (B)the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants,
    and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.

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Of the increase of his government and of peace
    (A)there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
    to establish it and to uphold it
(B)with justice and with righteousness
    from this time forth and forevermore.
(C)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

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16     the right hand of the Lord exalts,
    the right hand of the Lord (A)does valiantly!”

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16 (A)The Lord roars from Zion,
    and (B)utters his voice from Jerusalem,
    (C)and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is (D)a refuge to his people,
    a stronghold to the people of Israel.

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