Isaiah 63

Revised Geneva Translation

63 Who is this who comes from Edom, with red garments from Bozrah? He is glorious in His apparel, and walks in His great strength. “I speak in righteousness and am mighty to save.”

² Why is your apparel red, and your garments like him who treads in the winepress?

³ “I have trod the winepress alone, and from all people there was no one with Me. For I will tread them in My anger and tread them under foot in My wrath. And their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments. And I will stain all My clothing.

⁴ “For the day of vengeance is in My Heart. And the year of My redeemed has come.

⁵ “And I looked, and there was no one to help. And I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore, My own Arm helped Me. And My wrath itself sustained Me.

⁶ “Therefore, I will tread down the people in My wrath, and make them drunk in My indignation, and will bring down their strength to the earth.”

⁷ I will remember the mercy of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has given us, and for the great goodness toward the House of Israel which He has given them according to His tender love, and according to His great mercies.

⁸ For He said, “Surely they are My people, children that will not lie.” So He was their Savior.

⁹ In all their troubles, He was troubled. And the Angel of His presence saved them. In His love and in His mercy, He redeemed them and He bore them and carried them, always, continually.

¹⁰ But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. Therefore, He was turned to be their enemy. He fought against them.

¹¹ Then He remembered the old time of Moses and his people, saying, “Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His sheep? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within him?

¹² “He led them by the right hand of Moses with His own glorious Arm, dividing the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting Name.

¹³ “He led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they would not stumble.”

¹⁴ As the beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So did You lead Your people, to make Yourself a glorious Name.

¹⁵ Look down from Heaven, and behold from the dwelling place of Your holiness, and of Your Glory. Where is Your zeal and Your strength, the multitude of Your mercies, and of Your compassion? They are restrained from me.

¹⁶ Doubtless, You are our Father. Though Abraham is ignorant of us and Israel does not know us, You, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer. Your Name is forever.

¹⁷ O LORD, why have You made us err from Your ways, hardened our heart from Your fear? Return for Your servant’s sake, for the tribes of Your inheritance.

¹⁸ The people of Your holiness have possessed it only a little while. For our adversaries have trampled down Your Sanctuary.

¹⁹ We have been as they over whom You never bore rule and upon whom Your name was not called.