Isaiah 63:1-19
63 Who is this coming from Eʹdom,+From Bozʹrah+ with bright-colored* garments,This one with splendid clothing,Marching in his great power?
“It is I, the One speaking in righteousness,The One with great power to save.”
2 Why is your clothing red,And why are your garments like those of one treading the winepress?+
3 “I have trodden the wine trough alone.
No one from the peoples was with me.
I kept treading them in my anger,And I kept trampling them in my wrath.+
My garments were spattered with their blood,And I have stained all my clothing.
4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart,+And the year of my repurchased ones has come.
5 I looked, but there was no one to help;I was appalled that no one offered support.
So my arm brought me salvation,*+And my own wrath supported me.
6 I trampled peoples in my anger,I made them drunk with my wrath+And poured out their blood on the ground.”
7 I will mention Jehovah’s acts of loyal love,The praiseworthy acts of Jehovah,Because of all that Jehovah has done for us,+The many good things he has done for the house of Israel,According to his mercy and his great loyal love.
8 For he said: “Surely they are my people, sons who will not be disloyal.”*+
So he became their Savior.+
9 During all their distress it was distressing to him.+
And his own personal messenger* saved them.+
In his love and compassion he repurchased them,+And he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.+
10 But they rebelled+ and grieved his holy spirit.+
He then turned into their enemy,+And he fought against them.+
11 And they remembered the days of old,The days of Moses his servant:
“Where is the One who brought them up out of the sea+ with the shepherds of his flock?+
Where is the One who put within him His holy spirit,+
12 The One who made His glorious arm go with the right hand of Moses,+The One who split the waters before them+To make an everlasting name for himself,+
13 The One who made them walk through the surging waters,*So that they walked without stumbling,Like a horse in the open country?*
14 Just like livestock when they go down into the valley plain,The spirit of Jehovah made them rest.”+
This is how you led your people,To make a majestic* name for yourself.+
15 Look down from heaven and seeFrom your lofty abode of holiness and glory.*
Where are your zeal and your mightiness,The stirring of your compassions*+ and your mercy?+
They are withheld from me.
16 For you are our Father;+Although Abraham may not know usAnd Israel may not recognize us,You, O Jehovah, are our Father.
Our Repurchaser of long ago is your name.+
17 Why do you, O Jehovah, let us* wander from your ways?
Why do you let* our hearts become hard, so that we do not fear you?+
Return, for the sake of your servants,The tribes of your inheritance.+
18 Your holy people possessed it for a short time.
Our adversaries have trampled on your sanctuary.+
19 For too long we have become like those you never ruled over,Like those never called by your name.
Footnotes
^ Or possibly, “bright-red.”
^ Or “victory.”
^ Or “prove false.”
^ Or “the angel of his presence.”
^ Or “deep waters.”
^ Or “the wilderness?”
^ Or “beautiful.”
^ Or “beauty.”
^ Lit., “The agitation of your inward parts.”
^ Or “cause us to.”
^ Lit., “make.”
