Isaiah 63

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

A figure arrives from Edom and Bozrah wearing crimson-stained garments, declaring that He has trodden the nations in His anger and brought salvation by His own strength. The text then recalls the Lord's loving devotion and compassion toward the house of Israel, noting how the Angel of His Presence saved them despite their later rebellion and grief caused to His Holy Spirit. Recalling the days of old, the people remember when Moses led them through the sea and the wilderness, guided by the Spirit of the Lord to gain a glorious name. The chapter concludes with a plea for the Lord to look down from heaven, acknowledging Him as Father and Redeemer while questioning why He has allowed them to stray and their enemies to trample His sanctuary.

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¹Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.” ²Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? ³“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained. ⁴For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come. ⁵I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me. ⁶I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.” ⁷I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion. ⁸For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior. ⁹In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. ¹⁰But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them. ¹¹Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them, ¹²who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown, ¹³who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble? ¹⁴Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name. ¹⁵Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained. ¹⁶Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name. ¹⁷Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage. ¹⁸For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary. ¹⁹We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

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