Isaiah 63:1-6

Revised Standard Version

“It is I, announcing vindication,
    mighty to save.”

² Why is thy apparel red,
    and thy garments like his that treads in the wine press?

³ “I have trodden the wine press alone,
    and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
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 my year of redemption^[a] has come.
⁵ I looked, but there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me victory,
    and my wrath upheld me.
⁶ I trod down the peoples in my anger,
    I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”