Isaiah 63

Vengeance on Edom

1 # Isa 34.5, 6; Am 1.12; Zeph 3.17 “Who is this coming from Edom,

from Bozrah in garments stained crimson?

Who is this so splendidly robed,

marching in his great might?”

“It is I, announcing vindication,

mighty to save.”

2 # Rev 19.13, 15 “Why are your robes red

and your garments like theirs who tread the winepress?”

3 # Isa 22.5; 28.3; Mic 7.10; Rev 19.15 “I have trodden the winepress alone,

and from the peoples no one was with me;

I trod them in my anger

and trampled them in my wrath;

their juice spattered on my garments,

and I stained all my robes.

4 # Isa 34.8; 61.2 For the day of vengeance was in my mind,

and the year for my redeeming work had come.

5 # Ps 98.1; Isa 52.10; 59.16 I looked, but there was no helper;

I was abandoned, and there was no one to sustain me,

so my own arm brought me victory,

and my wrath sustained me.

6 # Isa 34.3; 51.17, 21, 22; 65.12 I trampled down peoples in my anger;

I crushed them#63.6 Heb mss: MT I made them drunk in my wrath,

and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

God’s Mercy Remembered

7 # 1 Kings 8.66; Ps 51.1; Isa 54.8, 10 I will recount the gracious deeds of the Lord,

the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,

because of all that the Lord has done for us

and the great favor to the house of Israel

that he has shown them according to his mercy,

according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

8For he said, “Surely they are my people,

children who will not act deceitfully,”

and he became their savior

9 # Ex 19.4; 23.20–23; Deut 1.31; 7.7, 8; Judg 10.16 in all their distress.

It was no messenger or angel

but his presence that saved them;

in his love and pity it was he who redeemed them;

he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

10 # Ps 78.40; 106.40; Acts 7.51; Eph 4.30 But they rebelled

and grieved his holy spirit;

therefore he became their enemy;

he himself fought against them.

11 # Ex 14.30; Num 11.17; Ps 106.44, 45; Isa 51.9, 10 Then they#63.11 Heb he remembered the days of old,

of Moses his servant.#63.11 Cn: Heb his people

Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea

with the shepherds of his flock?

Where is the one who put within them

his holy spirit,

12 # Ex 14.21; 15.6; Isa 50.10, 11 who caused his glorious arm

to march at the right hand of Moses,

who divided the waters before them

to make for himself an everlasting name,

13 # Ps 106.9 who led them through the depths?

Like a horse in the desert,

they did not stumble.

14 # Deut 32.12 Like cattle that go down into the valley,

the spirit of the Lord gave them rest.

Thus you led your people,

to make for yourself a glorious name.

A Prayer of Penitence

15 # Deut 26.15; Ps 80.14; Jer 31.20; Hos 11.8 Look down from heaven and see,

from your holy and glorious habitation.

Where are your zeal and your might?

Your great pity and your compassion are withheld from me.

16 # Isa 44.6; 51.2; 60.16; 64.8 For you are our father,

though Abraham does not know us

and Israel does not acknowledge us;

you, O Lord, are our father;

our Redeemer from of old is your name.

17 # Num 10.36; Isa 29.13, 14; Ezek 14.7–9 Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways

and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you?

Turn back for the sake of your servants,

the tribes that are your heritage.

18 # Deut 7.6; Ps 74.3–7 Your holy people took possession for a little while,

but now our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

19 # Lam 3.43–45 We have long been like those whom you do not rule,

like those not called by your name.

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