Why are your clothes red,
and your garments like one who treads a winepress?(A)
I trampled the winepress alone,
and no one from the nations was with me.
I trampled them in my anger
and ground them underfoot in my fury;
their blood spattered my garments,
and all my clothes were stained.
For I planned the day of vengeance,(B)
and the year of my redemption[a] came.

I looked, but there was no one to help,(C)
and I was amazed that no one assisted;
so my arm accomplished victory for me,
and my wrath assisted me.

I crushed nations in my anger;
I made them drunk with my wrath(D)
and poured out their blood on the ground.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 63:4 Or blood retribution

38 I will judge you the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged.(A) Then I will bring about the shedding of your blood in jealous wrath.(B)

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I will drench the land
with the flow of your blood,
even to the mountains;
the ravines will be filled with your gore.

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