Isa 63
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Who is this that is come from Edom, with red garments from Bosor? thus fair in his
apparel, with mighty strength? I Gr. discourse, reason about speak of righteousness and saving judgement.
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Wherefore are your garments red, and your raiment as if fresh from a trodden wine
press?
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I am full of trodden grape, and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled
them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood
to the earth.
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For the day of recompence has come upon them, and the year of redemption is at hand.
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And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld: therefore
my arm delivered them, and mine anger drew nigh.
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And I trampled them in mine anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.
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I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the 1 Pe 2 :9 praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is
a good judge
to the house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy, and according to
the abundance of his righteousness.
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And he said, Is it not my people? the children surely will not be rebellious: and
he became to them deliverance
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out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself saved
them, because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them
up, and lifted them up Gr. all the days of the age all the days of old.
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But they disobeyed, and provoked his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy, he
himself contended against them.
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Then he remembered the ancient days, saying, Where is he who brought up from the sea
the shepherd of the sheep? where is he who put his Holy Spirit in them?
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who led Moses with his right hand, the arm of his glory? he forced the water to separate
from before him, to make himself an everlasting name.
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He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted
not,
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and as cattle through a plain: the Spirit came down from the Lord, and guided them:
thus you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
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Turn from heaven, and look from your holy habitation and from your glory: where is
your zeal and your strength? where is the abundance of your mercy and of your compassions,
that you have withholden yourself from us?
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For you are our Father; for though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge
us, yet do you, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: your name has been upon us from the
beginning.
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Why have you caused us to err, O Lord, from your way? and has hardened our hearts,
that we should not fear you? Return for your servants’ sake, for the sake of the tribes
of your inheritance,
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that we may inherit a small part of your holy mountain. Heb. and Alex. +’our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.’
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We are become as at the beginning, when you did not rule over us, and your name was
not called upon us.