| 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. |
| 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. |
| 4 |
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is
come. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 10 | But they
rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy,
and he fought against them. |
| 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? |
|
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? |
| 14 | 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 19 | We are
thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. |
