Isaiah 63

1Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.

1Who is this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red 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.

2Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?

2— Wherefore is redness in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?

3I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.

3I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all mine apparel.

4For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.

4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed had come.

5And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.

5And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: and mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

6And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

6And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury; and their blood have I brought down to the earth.

7I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.

7I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed upon us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.

8For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.

8And he said, They are indeed my people, children that will not lie; and he became their Saviour.

9It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

9In 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 bore them and carried them all the days of old.

10But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.

10But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them.

11Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,

11But he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him,

12He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;

12his glorious arm leading them by the right hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name,

13He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?

13— who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, [and] they stumbled not?

14Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.

14As cattle go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah gave them rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

15Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

15Look down from the heavens, 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 tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me?

16For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

16For thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer, from everlasting, is thy name.

17O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

17Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

18Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

18Thy holy people have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

19We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.

19We have become [like those] over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name.