Isaiah 63 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

God's Vengeance on the Nations

Isa 63:1Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed 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.

Isa 63:2

Isa 63:2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?

Isa 63:3

Isa 63:3I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yea, I trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.

Isa 63:4

Isa 63:4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

Isa 63:5

Isa 63:5And 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.

Isa 63:6

Isa 63:6And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

God's Ancient Mercies Recalled

Isa 63:7

Isa 63:7I 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.

Isa 63:8

Isa 63:8For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour.

Isa 63:9

Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Isa 63:10

Isa 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

Isa 63:11

Isa 63:11Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?

Isa 63:12

Isa 63:12that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

Isa 63:13

Isa 63:13that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not?

Isa 63:14

Isa 63:14As 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.

"You Are Our Father"

Isa 63:15

Isa 63:15Look 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.

Isa 63:16

Isa 63:16For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.

Isa 63:17

Isa 63:17O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Isa 63:18

Isa 63:18Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Isa 63:19

Isa 63:19We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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