Isaiah 63

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¹Who is this who comes from Edom, With dyed garments from Bozrah, This One who is glorious in His apparel, Traveling in the greatness of His strength?— “I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.” ✦ ²Why is Your apparel red, And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? ✦ ³“I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all My robes. ✦ ⁴For the day of vengeance is in My heart, And the year of My redeemed has come. ✦ ⁵I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered That there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; And My own fury, it sustained Me. ✦ ⁶I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, Made them drunk in My fury, And brought down their strength to the earth.” ✦ ⁷I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord And the praises of the Lord, According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses. ✦ ⁸For He said, “Surely they are My people, Children who will not lie.” So He became their Savior. ✦ 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 bore them and carried them All the days of old. ✦ ¹⁰But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And He fought against them. ✦ ¹¹Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying: “Where is He who brought them up out of the sea With the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them, ✦ ¹²Who led them by the right hand of Moses, With His glorious arm, Dividing the water before them To make for Himself an everlasting name, ✦ ¹³Who led them through the deep, As a horse in the wilderness, That they might not stumble?” ✦ ¹⁴As a beast goes down into the valley, And the Spirit of the Lord causes him to rest, So You lead Your people, To make Yourself a glorious name. ✦ ¹⁵Look down from heaven, And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious. Where are Your zeal and Your strength, The yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me? Are they restrained? ✦ ¹⁶Doubtless You are our Father, Though Abraham was ignorant of us, And Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O Lord, are our Father; Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name. ✦ ¹⁷O Lord, why have You made us stray from Your ways, And hardened our heart from Your fear? Return for Your servants’ sake, The tribes of Your inheritance. ✦ ¹⁸Your holy people have possessed it but a little while; Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary. ✦ ¹⁹We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled, Those who were never called by Your name. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Neh 9 ·12 Ps 78 ·8 Isa 63 ·8 Isa 51 ·6 Exod 14 ·5 Ps 107 ·4 Isa 41 ·4 Rev 19 ·4

Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 63 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
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★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical
The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

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VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
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CommentaryEnduring Word — Isaiah 63David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
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CommentaryMatthew Henry on IsaiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
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