Isaiah 63

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.”

God’s Mercy Remembered

⁷I 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.

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

Children who will not lie.”

So He became their Savior.

^9gIn 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.

¹⁰But they ^krebelled and ^lgrieved His Holy Spirit;

^mSo He turned Himself against them as an enemy,

And He fought against them.

¹¹Then 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,

¹²Who led them by the right hand of Moses,

^qWith His glorious arm,

^rDividing the water before them

To make for Himself an everlasting name,

^13sWho led them through the deep,

As a horse in the wilderness,

That they might not stumble?”

¹⁴As 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

^15uLook 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?

^16xDoubtless 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.

¹⁷O 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.

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

^bOur adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

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

Those who were never called by Your name.