Isaiah 63-64

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The Lord's Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this who comes from ^(A)Edom,
    in crimsoned garments from ^(B)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
    ^(C)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”

²Why is your ^(D)apparel red,
and your garments like his ^(E)who treads in the winepress?

³^(F)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    ^(G)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood^[a] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.
⁴^(H)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption^[b] had come.
⁵I looked, but ^(I)there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.
⁶I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    ^(J)I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

The Lord's Mercy Remembered

⁷I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
    the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
    ^(K)and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
⁸For he said, “Surely they are my people,
    children who will not deal falsely.”
    And he became their Savior.
⁹^(L)In all their affliction he was afflicted,^[c]
    and the angel of his presence saved them;
^(M)in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
    ^(N)he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁰^(O)But they rebelled
    ^(P)and grieved his Holy Spirit;
therefore he turned to be their enemy,
    and himself fought against them.
¹¹Then he remembered ^(Q)the days of old,
    of Moses and his people.^[d]
^(R)Where is he who brought them up out of the sea
    with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is he who put in the midst of them
    his Holy Spirit,
¹²who caused his glorious arm
    to go at the right hand of Moses,
^(S)who divided the waters before them
    ^(T)to make for himself an everlasting name,
¹³    who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
    they did not stumble.
¹⁴Like livestock that go down into the valley,
    ^(U)the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
So you led your people,
    ^(V)to make for yourself a glorious name.

Prayer for Mercy

¹⁵^(W)Look down from heaven and see,
    ^(X)from your holy and beautiful^[e] habitation.
Where are ^(Y)your zeal and your might?
    The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
    are held back from me.
¹⁶For ^(Z)you are our Father,
    though Abraham does not know us,
    and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
    ^(AA)our Redeemer from of old is your name.
¹⁷O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways
    and ^(AB)harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
^(AC)Return for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes of your heritage.
¹⁸^(AD)Your holy people held possession for a little while;^[f]
    ^(AE)our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
¹⁹^(AF)We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
    like those who are not called by your name.

64 ^(AG)Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
    ^(AH)that the mountains might quake at your presence—
²^[g] as when fire kindles brushwood
    and the fire causes water to boil—
^(AI)to make your name known to your adversaries,
    and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
³^(AJ)When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
    you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
⁴^(AK)From of old no one has heard
    or perceived by the ear,
^(AL)no eye has seen a God besides you,
    who acts for those who wait for him.
⁵You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
    those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
    in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?^[h]
⁶^(AM)We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
^(AN)We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
⁷^(AO)There is no one who calls upon your name,
    who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
    and have made us melt in^[i] the hand of our iniquities.

⁸^(AP)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
    ^(AQ)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    ^(AR)we are all the work of your hand.
⁹^(AS)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
    ^(AT)and remember not iniquity forever.
    Behold, please look, we are all your people.
¹⁰^(AU)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
    Zion has become a wilderness,
    Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹^(AV)Our holy and beautiful^[j] house,
    where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
¹²^(AW)Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
    Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?