Isaiah 62:8–63:6

⁸The Lord has sworn with his right hand

and his strong arm:

I will no longer give your grain

to your enemies for food,^c

and foreigners will not drink the new wine

for which you have labored.

⁹For those who gather grain will eat it

and praise the Lord,

and those who harvest the grapes will drink the wine

in my holy courts.

¹⁰Go out, go out through the city gates;

prepare a way for the people!

Build it up, build up the highway;^d

clear away the stones!

Raise a banner for the peoples.^e

¹¹Look, the Lord has proclaimed

to the ends of the earth,

“Say to Daughter Zion:^f

Look, your salvation is coming,

his wages are with him,^g

and his reward accompanies him.”

¹²And they will be called^C the Holy People,^h

the Lord’s Redeemed;

and you will be called Cared For,

A City Not Deserted.

THE LORD’S DAY OF VENGEANCE

63Who is this coming from Edomⁱ

in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah—

this one who is splendid in his apparel,

striding in his formidable^D might?

It is I, proclaiming vindication,^E

powerful to save.

²Why are your clothes red,

and your garments like one who treads a winepress?^j

³I trampled the winepress alone,

and no one from the nations was with me.

I trampled them in my anger

and ground them underfoot in my fury;

their blood spattered my garments,

and all my clothes were stained.

⁴For I planned the day of vengeance,^k

and the year of my redemption^A came.

⁵I looked, but there was no one to help,^l

and I was amazed that no one assisted;

so my arm accomplished victory for me,

and my wrath assisted me.

⁶I crushed nations in my anger;

I made them drunk with my wrath^m

and poured out their blood on the ground.ⁿ