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But why are your clothes red?
You look like someone who has walked on grapes,
    and you have squeezed them to make wine.
He says, ‘I have walked on the grapes alone.
    Nobody from the nations came to help me.
I walked on them because I was angry.
    I squeezed them to pieces in my anger.
Their blood splashed on my clothes,
    and it made all my clothes dirty.
I decided that it was time to punish my enemies.
    Then I would save my people from their power.

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Why are your garments red,
    like those of one treading the winepress?(A)

“I have trodden the winepress(B) alone;
    from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled(C) them in my anger
    and trod them down in my wrath;(D)
their blood spattered my garments,(E)
    and I stained all my clothing.
It was for me the day of vengeance;(F)
    the year for me to redeem had come.

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