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CHAPTER 63
WHO is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra, this beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his strength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save.
2 Why then is your apparel red, and your garments like theirs that tread in the winepress?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my apparel.
4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my redemption is come.
5 I looked about, and there was none to help: I sought, and there was none to give aid: and my own arm has saved for me, and my indignation itself has helped me.
6 And I have trodden down the people in my wrath, and have made them drunk in my indignation, and have brought down their strength to the earth.
7 I will remember the tender mercies of the Lord, the praise of the Lord for all the things that the Lord has bestowed upon us, and for the multitude of his good things to the house of Israel, which he has given them according to his kindness, and according to the multitude of his mercies.
8 And he said: Surely they are my people, children that will not deny: so he became their saviour.
9 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.
10 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his Holy One?
12 He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name.
13 He that led them out through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness that stumbles not.
14 As a beast that goes down in the field, the spirit of the Lord was their leader: so did you lead your people to make yourself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from your holy habitation and the place of your glory: where is your zeal, and your strength, the multitude of your bowels, and of your mercies? they have held back themselves from me.
16 For you are our father, and Abraham has not known us, and Israel has been ignorant of us: you, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is your name.
17 Why have you made us to err, O Lord, from your ways: why have you hardened our heart, that we should not fear you? return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.
18 They have possessed your holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down your sanctuary.
19 We are become as in the beginning, when you did not rule over us, and when we were not called by your name.