The Lord In Judgment and Salvation

63 Who 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.”

2 Why 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.

4 For the cday of vengeance is in My heart,

And the year of My redeemed has come.

5 dI 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.

6 I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,

Made them drunk in My fury,

And brought down their strength to the earth.”

God’s Mercy Remembered

7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord

And the praises of the Lord,

According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us,

And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,

Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,

According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.

8 For He said, “Surely they are My people,

Children who will not lie.”

So He became their Savior.

9 gIn all their affliction He was 2afflicted,

hAnd the Angel of His Presence saved them;

iIn His love and in His pity He redeemed them;

And jHe bore them and carried them

All the days of old.

10 But they krebelled and lgrieved His Holy Spirit;

mSo He turned Himself against them as an enemy,

And He fought against them.

11 Then he nremembered the days of old,

Moses and his people, saying:

“Where is He who obrought them up out of the sea

With the 3shepherd of His flock?

pWhere is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,

12 Who led them by the right hand of Moses,

qWith His glorious arm,

rDividing the water before them

To make for Himself an everlasting name,

13 sWho led them through the deep,

As a horse in the wilderness,

That they might not stumble?”

14 As a beast goes down into the valley,

And the Spirit of the Lord causes him to rest,

So You lead Your people,

tTo make Yourself a glorious name.

A Prayer of Penitence

15 uLook down from heaven,

And see vfrom Your habitation, holy and glorious.

Where are Your zeal and Your strength,

The yearning wof Your heart and Your mercies toward me?

Are they restrained?

16 xDoubtless You are our Father,

Though Abraham ywas ignorant of us,

And Israel does not acknowledge us.

You, O Lord, are our Father;

Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

17 O Lord, why have You zmade us stray from Your ways,

And hardened our heart from Your fear?

Return for Your servants’ sake,

The tribes of Your inheritance.

18 aYour holy people have possessed it but a little while;

bOur adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

19 We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,

Those who were never called by Your name.

64 Oh, that You would 1rend the heavens!

That You would come down!

That the mountains might shake at Your apresence—

2 As fire burns brushwood,

As fire causes water to boil—

To make Your name known to Your adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

3 When bYou did awesome things for which we did not look,

You came down,

The mountains shook at Your presence.

4 For since the beginning of the world

cMen have not heard nor perceived by the ear,

Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,

Who acts for the one who waits for Him.

5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,

Who remembers You in Your ways.

You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—

dIn these ways we continue;

And we need to be saved.

6 But we are all like an unclean thing,

And all eour righteousnesses are like 2filthy rags;

We all ffade as a leaf,

And our iniquities, like the wind,

Have taken us away.

7 And there is no one who calls on Your name,

Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;

For You have hidden Your face from us,

And have 3consumed us because of our iniquities.

8 But now, O Lord,

You are our Father;

We are the clay, and You our gpotter;

And all we are the work of Your hand.

9 Do not be furious, O Lord,

Nor remember iniquity forever;

Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!

10 Your holy cities are a wilderness,

Zion is a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our holy and beautiful 4temple,

Where our fathers praised You,

Is burned up with fire;

And all hour pleasant things 5are laid waste.

12 iWill You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?

jWill You 6hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?