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href="../isaiah/62.htm" title="Isaiah 62">◄</a> Isaiah 63 <a href="../isaiah/64.htm" title="Isaiah 64">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/63.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s Day of Vengeance</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who is this who comes from Edom,</span><br /><span class="indent">in crimsoned garments from Bozrah,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">he who is splendid in his apparel,</span><br /><span class="indent">marching in the greatness of his strength?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“It is I, speaking in righteousness,</span><br /><span class="indent">mighty to save.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why is your apparel red,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I have trodden the winepress alone,</span><br /><span class="indent">and from the peoples no one was with me;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I trod them in my anger</span><br /><span class="indent">and trampled them in my wrath;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">their lifeblood<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or their juice; also verse 6">a</a></sup></span> spattered on my garments,</span><br /><span class="indent">and stained all my apparel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the day of vengeance was in my heart,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my year of redemption<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the year of my redeemed">b</a></sup></span> had come.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I looked, but there was no one to help;</span><br /><span class="indent">I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">so my own arm brought me salvation,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my wrath upheld me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I trampled down the peoples in my anger;</span><br /><span class="indent">I made them drunk in my wrath,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”</span></p> <p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s Mercy Remembered</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will recount the steadfast love of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">the praises of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">according to all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has granted us,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the great goodness to the house of Israel</span><br /><span class="ln-group">that he has granted them according to his compassion,</span><br /><span class="indent">according to the abundance of his steadfast love.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For he said, “Surely they are my people,</span><br /><span class="indent">children who will not deal falsely.”</span><br /><span class="indent">And he became their Savior.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In all their affliction he was afflicted,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or he did not afflict">c</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and the angel of his presence saved them;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;</span><br /><span class="indent">he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But they rebelled</span><br /><span class="indent">and grieved his Holy Spirit;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">therefore he turned to be their enemy,</span><br /><span class="indent">and himself fought against them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then he remembered the days of old,</span><br /><span class="indent">of Moses and his people.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Then his people remembered the days of old, of Moses">d</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">Where is he who brought them up out of the sea</span><br /><span class="indent">with the shepherds of his flock?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Where is he who put in the midst of them</span><br /><span class="indent">his Holy Spirit,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">who caused his glorious arm</span><br /><span class="indent">to go at the right hand of Moses,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who divided the waters before them</span><br /><span class="indent">to make for himself an everlasting name,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="indent">who led them through the depths?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Like a horse in the desert,</span><br /><span class="indent">they did not stumble.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Like livestock that go down into the valley,</span><br /><span class="indent">the Spirit of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave them rest.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">So you led your people,</span><br /><span class="indent">to make for yourself a glorious name.</span></p> <p class="heading">Prayer for Mercy</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Look down from heaven and see,</span><br /><span class="indent">from your holy and beautiful<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or holy and glorious">e</a></sup></span> habitation.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Where are your zeal and your might?</span><br /><span class="indent">The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion</span><br /><span class="indent">are held back from me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you are our Father,</span><br /><span class="indent">though Abraham does not know us,</span><br /><span class="indent">and Israel does not acknowledge us;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, are our Father,</span><br /><span class="indent">our Redeemer from of old is your name.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, why do you make us wander from your ways</span><br /><span class="indent">and harden our heart, so that we fear you not?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Return for the sake of your servants,</span><br /><span class="indent">the tribes of your heritage.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your holy people held possession for a little while;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or They have dispossessed your holy people for a little while">f</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,</span><br /><span class="indent">like those who are not called by your name.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">their</span> juice</i>; also verse 6<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>the year of my redeemed</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">he</span> did not afflict</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">Then</span> his people remembered the days of old, of Moses</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">holy and</span> glorious</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>They have dispossessed your holy people for a little while</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br 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