Isa 63
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Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious
in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save.
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Wherefore are you red in your apparel, and your garments like him whom treads in the
winevat?
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I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me:
yea, I trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my anger; and their lifeblood
is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
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For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
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And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold:
therefore mine own arm brought salvation to me; and my anger, it upheld me.
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And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my anger, and I
poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
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I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of YHWH, [and] the praises of YHWH, according
to all that YHWH has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude
of his lovingkindnesses.
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For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he
was their Saviour.
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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; and he bare them, and carried them all
the days of old.
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But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their
enemy, [and] 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 in the midst of them?
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that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters
before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
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that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled
not?
14
As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of YHWH caused them to rest;
so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
15
Look down from heaven, and behold 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
compassions are restrained toward me.
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For you are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not acknowledge
us: you, O YHWH, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
17
O YHWH, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear?
Return for your servants` sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
18
Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down
your sanctuary.
19
We are become as they over whom you never ruled, as they that were not called by your
name.