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Isaiah 63
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| 63:1
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this
that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his
strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. |
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| 63:2
Wherefore art thou red
in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
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(63:2-6)
"I will ... trample them in my fury; and their blood ... will stain
all my raiment."
(God's clothes will get stained with the blood of humans.)
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| 63:3
I have trodden the
winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will
tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall
be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
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| 63:4
For the day of
vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. |
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| 63:5
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was
none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my
fury, it upheld me. |
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| 63:6
And I will tread down
the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will
bring down their strength to the earth. |
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| 63:7
I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the
LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great
goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them
according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his
lovingkindnesses. |
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| 63:8
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he
was their Saviour. |
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| 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence
saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them,
and carried them all the days of old. |
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| 63:10
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to
be their enemy, and he fought against them. |
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| 63:11
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where
is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock?
where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? |
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| 63:12
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing
the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? |
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| 63:13
That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they
should not stumble? |
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| 63:14
As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him
to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. |
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| 63:15
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and
of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels
and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? |
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| 63:16
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and
Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy
name is from everlasting. |
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| 63:17
O LORD, why hast thou
made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?
Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. |
"O Lord, why hast thou made us to err
from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?" Good question.
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| 63:18
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our
adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. |
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| 63:19
We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by
thy name.
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