Isaiah 62:8–63:6

⁸Yahweh has sworn by his right hand,

and by his mighty arm,^e

“Surely I will never again give your grain as food to your enemies,^f

and surely foreigners^g shall not drink your new wine at which you have labored.”

⁹But those who gather it shall eat it, and they shall praise Yahweh,

and those who gather it shall drink it in my holy courts.^h

¹⁰Pass through, pass through the gates!

Make the way clear forⁱ the people!

Pile up, pile up the highway; clear it of stones!^j

Lift up an ensign over the peoples!

¹¹Look! Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth:

Say to daughter Zion, “Look, your salvation is coming!

Look, his reward is with him,

and his reward before him.

¹²And they shall call them “The Holy People,^k The Redeemed Of Yahweh,”

and you^l shall be called “Sought After, A City Not Forsaken.”

Yahweh’s Day of Vengeance

63Who is this, coming from Edom,

from Bozrah in bright red garments?

Who is this honored in his garment,

lying down in his great strength?

“It is I, speaking in justice,

mighty^a to save!”

²Why are your garments^b red,

and your garments like he who treads in the winepress?

³“I have trodden the winepress alone,

and there was no man from the peoples with me.

And I trod them in my anger,

and I trampled them in my wrath,

and spattered their juice on my garments,

and stained all my clothing,

⁴for the day of vengeance was in my heart,

and the year of my blood-vengeance has come!

⁵And I looked, but^c there was no helper,

and I was appalled, but^d there was no one who sustains,

so^e my arm came to assist me,

and my wrath was what^f sustained me.

⁶And I trampled peoples in my anger,

and I made them drunk in my wrath,

and I brought their juice down to the earth.”