Isaiah 63
The Day of the LORD's Vengeance |
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Who is this that cometh from Edom, Is.
34.5-17 · Jer. 49.7-22 · Ezek.
25.12-14 ; 35.1-15 · Amos 1.11, 12 · 1.14 · Mal. 1.2-5 with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious
in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that
speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
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Wherefore art thou red in thine
apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the
winevat?
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I have trodden the winepress Rev.
14.20 ; 19.15 alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I
will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and
their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain
all my raiment. Rev. 19.13
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For the day of vengeance is in
mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
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And 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 fury, it
upheld me. Is. 59.16
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And I will tread down the people in mine
anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their
strength to the earth.
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The LORD's Goodness to Israel |
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I will mention the loving-kindnesses of
the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD 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
loving-kindnesses.
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For he said, Surely they are my
people, children that will not lie: so he was their
Saviour.
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In 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.
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But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy
Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he
fought against them.
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Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that
brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his Holy Spirit within him?
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that led them by the right hand of
Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, Ex.
14.21 to make himself an everlasting name?
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that led them through the deep, as a
horse in the wilderness, that they should not
stumble?
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As a beast goeth down into the valley,
the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest; so
didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious
name.
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Prayer for Mercy and
Help |
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Look down from heaven, and behold from
the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy
zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies
toward me? are they restrained?
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Doubtless thou art our Father,
though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not:
thou, O LORD, art our Father, our
Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
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O LORD, why hast
thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart
from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine
inheritance.
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The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy
sanctuary.
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We are thine: thou never barest
rule over them; they were not called by thy
name.
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