Isaiah 62:8–63:6

⁸The Lord has sworn by His right hand

And by the arm of His strength:

“Surely I will no longer ^kgive your grain

As food for your enemies;

And the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine,

For which you have labored.

⁹But those who have gathered it shall eat it,

And praise the Lord;

Those who have brought it together shall drink it ^lin My holy courts.”

¹⁰Go through,

Go through the gates!

^mPrepare the way for the people;

Build up,

Build up the highway!

Take out the stones,

ⁿLift up a banner for the peoples!

¹¹Indeed the Lord has proclaimed

To the end of the world:

^o“Say to the daughter of Zion,

‘Surely your salvation is coming;

Behold, His ^preward is with Him,

And His ⁸work before Him.’ ”

¹²And they shall call them The Holy People,

The Redeemed of the Lord;

And you shall be called Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken.

The Lord In Judgment and Salvation

63Who is this who comes from Edom,

With dyed garments from Bozrah,

This One who is ¹glorious in His apparel,

Traveling in the greatness of His strength?—

“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

²Why ^ais Your apparel red,

And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?

³“I have ^btrodden the winepress alone,

And from the peoples no one was with Me.

For I have trodden them in My anger,

And trampled them in My fury;

Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,

And I have stained all My robes.

⁴For the ^cday of vengeance is in My heart,

And the year of My redeemed has come.

^5dI looked, but ^ethere was no one to help,

And I wondered

That there was no one to uphold;

Therefore My own ^farm brought salvation for Me;

And My own fury, it sustained Me.

⁶I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,

Made them drunk in My fury,

And brought down their strength to the earth.”