Isaiah 63
1WHO is this who is coming from Edom? What redness of mantles from Bosor! He so magnificent in apparel? He marcheth with majesty!
I proclaim righteousness and the judgment of salvation.
2Why are thy garments red, and thy clothing, as from a trodden wine-vat?
3I am full of a country trodden down; and of the nations there is not a man with Me. I have trodden them down in My wrath, and crumbled them like dust and shed their blood on the earth.
4For the day of retribution came upon them and the year of redemption is at hand.
5When I looked and there was no helper and observed that none upheld; then Mine own arm delivered them. Mine indignation indeed was roused,
6and I trampled them down in Mine anger and shed their blood on the earth.
7I recollected the lovingkindness of the Lord—the mercies of the Lord in all those things which He retributeth for us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel. He dealeth with us according to His tender mercy and according to the abundance of His saving goodness,
8and said, Is not this My people? Children should not rebel. And He became their Saviour from all their distress.
9It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but He Himself saved them. Through His love and His indulgence to them, He Himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them all the days of old.
10But they rebelled and provoked His holy spirit; so He became their enemy. He fought against them;
11though He remembered the days of old. O! where is He who caused the shepherd of His flock to come up out of the sea? Where is He, who put His Holy Spirit in them? That glorious arm of His which led Moses by the right hand? He forced back the water from before Him, to make Himself an everlasting name.
13He led them through the deep, like a horse through a desert; and they were not fatigued:
14and like cattle through a plain. A spirit from the Lord descended and conducted them. Thus Thou didst lead this people of Thine, to make Thyself a glorious name.
15Return from heaven and take a view from the house of Thy sanctuary and Thy glory. Where is Thy zeal and Thy majesty? Where the abundance of Thy loving kindness and tender affections, that Thou hast withdrawn thyself from us?
16For Thou art our Father. Because Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel hath not acknowledged us; do thou, O Lord, our Father, do thou deliver us. From the beginning Thy name is upon us;
17why, O Lord, hast Thou suffered us to wander from Thy way, and our hearts to be hardened so as not to fear Thee? Return for the sake of Thy servants—for the sake of the tribes of Thy heritage,
18that we may inherit a little of Thy holy mountain.
19We are become as at the beginning, when Thou didst rule over us, and when we were not called by Thy name.