Isaiah 63
God's Vengeance and Redemption
God's Everlasting Kingdom is Revealed1
Who is this who comes from Edom,with dyed garments from Bozrah?Who this who is glorious in his clothing,marching in the greatness of his strength?"It is I who speak in righteousness,mighty to save."
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Why is your clothing red,and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
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"I have trodden the wine press alone;and of the peoples, no one was with me:Yes, I trod them in my anger,and trampled them in my wrath.Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments,and I have stained all my clothing.
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For the day of vengeance was in my heart,and the year of my redeemed has come.
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I looked, and there was no one to help;and I wondered that there was no one to uphold:therefore my own arm brought salvation to me;and my own wrath upheld me.
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I trod down the peoples in my anger,and made them drunk in my wrath,and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."
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For he said, "Surely, they are my people,children who will not deal falsely;"so he became their Savior.
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In all their affliction he was afflicted,and the angel of his presence saved them.In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.He bore them,and carried them all the days of old.
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But they rebelled,and grieved his holy Spirit.Therefore he turned and became their enemy,and he himself fought against them.
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Then he remembered the days of old,Moses and his people, saying,"Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?"
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Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses' right hand?Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
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Who led them through the depths,like a horse in the wilderness,so that they didn't stumble?
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As the livestock that go down into the valley,The LORD's Spirit caused them to rest.So you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
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Look down from heaven,and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
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O The LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways,and harden our heart from your fear?Return for your servants' sake,the tribes of your inheritance.
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Your holy people possessed it but a little while.Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
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We have become like those over whom you never ruled,like those who were not called by your name.
Isa 63:1-19. MESSIAH COMING AS THE AVENGER, IN ANSWER TO HIS PEOPLE'S PRAYERS.
Messiah, approaching Jerusalem after having avenged His people on His and their enemies, is represented under imagery taken from the destruction of "Edom," the type of the last and most bitter foes of God and His people (see Isa 34:5, &c.).
1. Who--the question of the prophet in prophetic vision.
dyed--scarlet with blood (Isa 63:2, 3; Re 19:13).
Bozrah--(See on Isa 34:6).
travelling--rather, stately; literally, "throwing back the head" [GESENIUS].
speak in righteousness--answer of Messiah. I, who have in faithfulness given a promise of deliverance, am now about to fulfil it. Rather, speak of righteousness (Isa 45:19; 46:13); salvation being meant as the result of His "righteousness" [MAURER].
save--The same Messiah that destroys the unbeliever saves the believer.