63:1 Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments
from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, traveling
in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in
righteousness, mighty to save.
63:2 Why [art thou] red in thy apparel, and thy garments like
him that treadeth in the wine-vat.
63:3 I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people
[there was] none with me: for I will tread them in my anger,
and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled
upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
63:4 For the day of vengeance [is] in my heart, and the year of
my redeemed is come.
63:5 And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered
that [there was] none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought
salvation to me; and my fury, it upheld me.
63:6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them
drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the
earth.
63:7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, [and] the
praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath
bestowed on us, and the great goodness towards the house of
Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his
mercies, and according to the multitude of his
loving-kindnesses.
63:8 For he said, Surely they [are] my people, children [that]
will not lie: so he was their Savior.
63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of
his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he
redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days
of old.
63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he
was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.
63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] his
people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them out of the
sea with the shepherd of his flock? where [is] he that put his
holy Spirit within him?
63:12 That led [them] by the right hand of Moses with his
glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself
an everlasting name?
63:13 That led them through the deep, as a horse in the
wilderness, [that] they should not stumble?
63:14 As a beast goeth down in the valley, the Spirit of the
LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make
thyself a glorious name.
63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of
thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy zeal and thy
strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards
me? are they restrained?
63:16 Doubtless thou [art] our father, though Abraham be
ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD,
[art] our father, our Redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.
63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and]
hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'
sake, the tribes of thy inheritance.
63:18 The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a
little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
63:19 We are [thine]: thou never didst bear rule over them; they
were not called by thy name.
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