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 your wine

for which you have labored;

⁹but those who garner it shall eat it

and praise the Lord,

and those who gather it shall drink it

in the courts of my sanctuary.”

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.

¹¹Behold, the Lord has proclaimed

to the end of the earth:

Say to the daughter of Zion,

“Behold, your salvation comes;

behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.”

¹²And they shall be called The holy people,

The redeemed of the Lord;

and you shall be called Sought out,

a city not forsaken.

Chapter 63

¹Who is this that comes from Edom,

in crimsoned garments from Bozrah,

he that is glorious in his apparel,

marching in the greatness of his strength?

“It is I, announcing vindication, mighty to save.”

²Why is thy apparel red,

and thy garments like his that treads in the wine press?

³“I have trodden the wine press alone,

and from the peoples no one was with me;

I trod them in my anger

and trampled them in my wrath;

their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments,

and I have stained all my raiment.

⁴For the day of vengeance was in my heart,

and my year of redemption^w has come.

⁵I looked, but there was no one to help;

I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;

so my own arm brought me victory, and my wrath upheld me.

⁶I trod down the peoples in my anger,

I made them drunk in my wrath,

and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”