Isaiah 63:1-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

‘It is I, announcing vindication,
    mighty to save.’

² ‘Why are your robes red,
    and your garments like theirs who tread the wine press?’

³ ‘I have trodden the wine press alone,
    and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their juice spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my robes.
⁴ For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and the year for my redeeming work had come.
⁵ I looked, but there was no helper;
    I stared, but there was no one to sustain me;
so my own arm brought me victory,
    and my wrath sustained me.
⁶ I trampled down peoples in my anger,
    I crushed them in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.’