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Chapter 63 |
| 1 | Who is this
that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in
his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in
righteousness, mighty to save. |
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2 | Wherefore art thou red in thine
apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? |
| 3 | I
have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for
I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood
shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
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| 4 | For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed
is come. |
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| And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered
that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto
me; and my fury, it upheld me. |
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6 | And I will tread down the people in
mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their
strength to the earth. |
| 7 | I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the
LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed
on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath
bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of
his lovingkindnesses. |
| 8 | For he said, Surely they are my people,
children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour. |
| 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 bare them, and carried them all
the days of old. |
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10 | But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit:
therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
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| 11 | Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where
is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where
is he that put his holy Spirit within him? |
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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? |
| 13 | That led them through the
deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? |
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As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to
rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
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| 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 toward me? are they restrained? |
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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. |
| 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 thine inheritance. |
| 18 | The people of thy holiness
have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy
sanctuary. |
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| We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were
not called by thy name. |
