Isaiah 62:8–63:6

⁸The Lord has sworn by his right hand

and by his mighty arm:

I will not again give your grain

to be food for your enemies,

and foreigners shall not drink the wine

for which you have labored,^*

⁹but those who harvest it shall eat it

and praise the Lord,

and those who gather it shall drink it

in my holy courts.^*

¹⁰Go through, go through the gates;

prepare the way for the people;

build up, build up the highway;

clear it of stones;

lift up an ensign over the peoples.^*

¹¹The Lord has proclaimed

to the end of the earth:

Say to daughter Zion,

“Look, your savior comes;

his reward is with him

and his recompense before him.”^*

¹²They shall be called, “The Holy People,

The Redeemed of the Lord,”

and you shall be called, “Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken.”^*

Vengeance on Edom

⁶³“Who is this coming from Edom,

from Bozrah in garments stained crimson?

Who is this so splendidly robed,

marching in his great might?”

“It is I, announcing vindication,

mighty to save.”^*

²“Why are your robes red

and your garments like theirs who tread the winepress?”^*

³“I have trodden the winepress alone,

and from the peoples no one was with me;

I trod them in my anger

and trampled them in my wrath;

their juice spattered on my garments,

and I stained all my robes.^*

⁴For the day of vengeance was in my mind,

and the year for my redeeming work had come.^*

⁵I looked, but there was no helper;

I was abandoned, and there was no one to sustain me,

so my own arm brought me victory,

and my wrath sustained me.^*

⁶I trampled down peoples in my anger;

I crushed them^j in my wrath,

and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”^*