Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

LXIII. 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with bright red garments from Bozrah? this, that is glorious in his raiment, swaying in the mightiness of his strength? I, that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

2 Wherefore is there red upon thy raiment, and thy garments like one that treadeth in a winepress?

3 Ι have trodden the wine trough alone, and of the peoples there was not a man with me; and I trode them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their life blood was sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.

4 For a day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed ones is come.

[*](12. Or, ‘And men (indef.) shall call them...)[*](1. ‘glorious,’ lit., swelling: perh. of ﬂowing robes. Cf. Ps. civ. r; of swelling, rising ground, ch. xlv. 2.)[*](3. The tenses are imperfect, with max not conversive: the past tense may be iterative: or else the points require alteration for this rendering: and so ver. 6. ‘life blood,’ literally juice or sap. ‘have stained’: the tense form (Hiph. perf.?) is exceptional.)

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5 And I looked, and there was none that helped; and I was amazed, and there was none that supported; and mine own arm wrought salvation for me, and my fury, it supported me.

6 Ahd I trampled the people in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury, and brought down their life blood to the earth.

7 I will recall the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath recompensed to us, and the abundance of good toward the house of Israel which he hath recompensed to them, according to his mercies, and according to the abundance of his lovingkindnesses.

8 And he said, Only they are my people, sons that will not deal falsely; and he became their Saviour.

9 In all their distress he was distressed, and the angel of his Face saved them; in his love and in his forbearance he re deemed them; and be lifted them up, and carried them all the days of old.

10 And they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; and he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

11 And he remembered the days of old, Moses, his people; 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?

12 That caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

13 That caused them to go through the deeps, like a horse in the wilderness, without stumbling?

[*](5. Or, ‘arm saved for me,’ as lix. 16.)[*](6. Many 5155., editions, and other authorities read 'shattered' (3 for D) for ‘made drunk,’)[*](9 init. So Heb. margin ἧι) to him for ℵABBREVnot). Heb. text, ‘In all their adversity he was not an adversary... (?))[*](11. Or. ‘And his people remembered the days of old. of Moses.' Or, (omit ‘with’) ‘the shepherd' (obj. to ‘brought up,' or possibly to ‘remembered.’) Many MSS. c. read)[*](13. 'wilderness,' prob. meaning ‘open country’: cf. Psal. cvi. 9.)

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14 As a beast goeth down ’the valley, the Spirit of the LORD brought him to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a name of beauty.

15 Look from heaven, and see from the habitation of thy holiness and thy beauty: where is thy jealousy, and thy mighty acts? the sounding of thy bowels and thy mercies are restrained towards me.

16 For thou art our father; for Abraham knoweth us not, Israel doth not recognize us: thy name is Our Redeemer from of old.

17 Why dost thou make us stray, O LORD, from thy ways, and harden our heart from fearing thee? Return, for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

18 Thy holy people have possessed for a little while; our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, upon whom thy name was not called.