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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/isaiah/63.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> in Judgment and Salvation</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-63-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Who <i>is</i> this who comes from Edom,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-1">With dyed garments from Bozrah,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-1">This <i>One who is</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>glorious in His apparel,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-1">Traveling in the greatness of His strength?—</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-63-1">“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Why <i>is</i> Your apparel red,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-2">And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“I have trodden the winepress alone,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3">And from the peoples no one <i>was</i> with Me.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3">For I have trodden them in My anger,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3">And trampled them in My fury;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3">Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3">And I have stained all My robes.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For the day of vengeance <i>is</i> in My heart,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-4">And the year of My redeemed has come.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I looked, but <i>there was</i> no one to help,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-5">And I wondered</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-5">That <i>there was</i> no one to uphold;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-5">Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-5">And My own fury, it sustained Me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-6">Made them drunk in My fury,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-6">And brought down their strength to the earth.”</span></p></div> <h3> God’s Mercy Remembered</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-63-7"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7"><i>And</i> the praises of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7">According to all that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has bestowed on us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7">And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7">Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7">According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For He said, “Surely they <i>are</i> My people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-8">Children <i>who</i> will not lie.”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-8">So He became their Savior.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In all their affliction He was <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>afflicted,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-9">And the Angel of His Presence saved them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-9">In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-9">And He bore them and carried them</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-9">All the days of old.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-10">So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-10"><i>And</i> He fought against them.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then he remembered the days of old,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-11">Moses <i>and</i> his people, <i>saying:</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-11">“Where <i>is</i> He who brought them up out of the sea</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-11">With the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>shepherd of His flock?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-11">Where <i>is</i> He who put His Holy Spirit within them,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Who led <i>them</i> by the right hand of Moses,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-12">With His glorious arm,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-12">Dividing the water before them</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-12">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>Who led them through the deep,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-13">As a horse in the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-13"><i>That</i> they might not stumble?”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As a beast goes down into the valley,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-14"><i>And</i> the Spirit of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> causes him to rest,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-14">So You lead Your people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-14">To make Yourself a glorious name.</span></p></div> <h3> A Prayer of Penitence</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-63-15"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Look down from heaven,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-15">And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-15">Where <i>are</i> Your zeal and Your strength,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-15">The yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-15">Are they restrained?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Doubtless You <i>are</i> our Father,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-16">Though Abraham was ignorant of us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-16">And Israel does not acknowledge us.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-16">You, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, <i>are</i> our Father;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-16">Our Redeemer from Everlasting <i>is</i> Your name.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, why have You made us stray from Your ways,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-17"><i>And</i> hardened our heart from Your fear?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-17">Return for Your servants’ sake,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-17">The tribes of Your inheritance.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Your holy people have possessed <i>it</i> but a little while;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-18">Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/63-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We have become <i>like</i> those of old, over whom You never ruled,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-19">Those who were never called by Your name.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18868a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 63:1">Isaiah 63:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>adorned</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18876b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 63:9">Isaiah 63:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Kt., LXX, Syr. <i>not afflicted</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18878c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 63:11">Isaiah 63:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>MT, Vg. <i>shepherds</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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