Isaiah 63 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

God's Vengeance on the Nations

Isa 63:1Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.

Isa 63:2

Isa 63:2Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?

Isa 63:3

Isa 63:3I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.

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Isa 63:4For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.

Isa 63:5

Isa 63:5And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.

Isa 63:6

Isa 63:6And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

God's Ancient Mercies Recalled

Isa 63:7

Isa 63:7I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.

Isa 63:8

Isa 63:8For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.

Isa 63:9

Isa 63:9It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

Isa 63:10

Isa 63:10But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.

Isa 63:11

Isa 63:11Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,

Isa 63:12

Isa 63:12He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;

Isa 63:13

Isa 63:13He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?

Isa 63:14

Isa 63:14Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.

"You Are Our Father"

Isa 63:15

Isa 63:15Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

Isa 63:16

Isa 63:16For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

Isa 63:17

Isa 63:17O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

Isa 63:18

Isa 63:18Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

Isa 63:19

Isa 63:19We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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