Isaiah 63
1 Who is this that is come from Edom,
with red garments from Bosor? thus fair in his
apparel, with mighty strength? I
aGr. discourse, reason about.speak of righteousness and saving judgment.
2 Wherefore are thy garments red, and
thy raiment as if fresh from a trodden wine-press?
3 I am full of trodden
grape, and of the nations there is not a man with me;
and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and
brought down their blood to the earth.
4 For the day of recompence has come
upon them, and the year of redemption is at hand.
5 And I looked, and there was no
helper; and I observed, and none upheld: therefore my arm delivered them, and
mine anger drew nigh. 6 And I trampled
them in mine anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.
7 I remembered the mercy of the Lord,
the
b1 Pet. 2. 9.
praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is a
good judge to the house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy,
and according to the abundance of his righteousness.
8 And he said, Is it not my people?
the children surely will not be rebellious: and he became to them deliverance
9 out of all their affliction: not an
ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself saved them, because he loved them and
spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up
cGr. all the days of the age.all the days of old.
10 But they disobeyed, and provoked
his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy, he himself contended against
them. 11 Then he remembered the
ancient days, saying, Where is he that brought up
from the sea the shepherd of the sheep? where is he that put his Holy Spirit
in them? 12 who led Moses with his
right hand, the arm of his glory? he forced the water
to separate from before him, to make himself an
everlasting name. 13 He led them
through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not,
14 and as cattle through a plain: the
Spirit came down from the Lord, and guided them: thus thou leddest thy people,
to make thyself a glorious name.
15 Turn from heaven, and look from
thy holy habitation and from thy glory: where is thy
zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy
compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us?
16 For thou art our Father; for
though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not
acknowledge us, yet do thou, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: thy name has been
upon us from the beginning.
17 Why hast thou caused us to err, O
Lord, from thy way? and hast hardened our hearts,
that we should not fear thee? Return for thy servants' sake, for the sake of
the tribes of thine inheritance,
18 that we may inherit a small part
of thy holy mountain. 19 dHeb. and Alex. + 'our adversaries have trodden down the sanctuary.'We are become as at the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and thy
name was not called upon us.
If thou wouldest open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains
from thee, and they shall melt,