63: 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with ⁶⁶⁴dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
⁶⁶⁴Or, crimsoned

63: 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?
63: 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I ⁶⁶⁵trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their ⁶⁶⁶lifeblood ⁶⁶⁷is sprinkled upon my garments, and I ⁶⁶⁸have stained all my raiment.
⁶⁶⁵Or, will tread them in mine anger, and trample
⁶⁶⁶Or, strength
⁶⁶⁷Or, shall be sprinkled
⁶⁶⁸Or, will stain all my raiment.

63: 4 For the day of vengeance ⁶⁶⁹was in my heart, and ⁶⁷⁰the year of my ransomed is come.
⁶⁶⁹Or, is
⁶⁷⁰Or, my year of redemptions is come.

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 wrath, it upheld me.
63: 6 And ⁶⁷¹I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and ⁶⁷²made them drunk in my wrath, and I ⁶⁷³poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
⁶⁷¹Or, I will tread down the peoples in mine anger, and make them drunk in my wrath, and I will pour out their lifeblood on the earth.
⁶⁷²Many mss. read brake them in pieces in my wrath,
⁶⁷³Or, brought down their strength to the earth.

63: 7 I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah, and the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah 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.
63: 8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour.
63: 9 ⁶⁷⁴In all their adversity he was no adversary, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he ransomed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
⁶⁷⁴Or, In all their adversity there was no real adversity, Hb^mg reads In all their affliction he was afflicted,

63: 10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
63: 11 ⁶⁷⁵Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he ⁶⁷⁶that brought them up out of the sea with the ⁶⁷⁷shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?
⁶⁷⁵Or, Then his people remembered the ancient days of Moses, saying, Where is he etc.
⁶⁷⁶1QIsa^a (Sept., Aram.) read that brought up out of the sea the shepherds of his flock
⁶⁷⁷Some mss. read shepherd (singular)

63: 12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
63: 13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not?
63: 14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
63: 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.
63: 16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art out Father; our Ransomer from everlasting is thy name.
63: 17 O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy awe? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
63: 18 Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
63: 19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.