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Yahweh’s Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this, coming from Edom,
    from Bozrah in bright red garments?
Who is this honored in his garment,
    lying down in his great strength?
It is I, speaking in justice,
    mighty[a] to save!”
Why are your garments[b] red,
    and your garments like he who treads in the winepress?
“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    and there was no man from the peoples with me.
And I trod them in my anger,
    and I trampled them in my wrath,
and spattered their juice on my garments,
    and stained all my clothing,
for the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and the year of my blood-vengeance has come!
And I looked, but[c] there was no helper,
    and I was appalled, but[d] there was no one who sustains,
so[e] my arm came to assist me,
    and my wrath was what[f] sustained me.
And I trampled peoples in my anger,
    and I made them drunk in my wrath,
        and I brought their juice down to the earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:1 Literally “great”
  2. Isaiah 63:2 Hebrew “garment”
  3. Isaiah 63:5 Or “and”
  4. Isaiah 63:5 Or “and”
  5. Isaiah 63:5 Or “and”
  6. Isaiah 63:5 Literally “it”

Judgment against the Lord’s Enemies

63 Who is this who comes from Edom,
    from the city of Bozrah,
    with his clothing stained red?
Who is this in royal robes,
    marching in his great strength?

“It is I, the Lord, announcing your salvation!
    It is I, the Lord, who has the power to save!”

Why are your clothes so red,
    as if you have been treading out grapes?

“I have been treading the winepress alone;
    no one was there to help me.
In my anger I have trampled my enemies
    as if they were grapes.
In my fury I have trampled my foes.
    Their blood has stained my clothes.
For the time has come for me to avenge my people,
    to ransom them from their oppressors.
I was amazed to see that no one intervened
    to help the oppressed.
So I myself stepped in to save them with my strong arm,
    and my wrath sustained me.
I crushed the nations in my anger
    and made them stagger and fall to the ground,
    spilling their blood upon the earth.”

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