1Who is this that cometh from Edom, with red garments from Bozrah? he is glorious in his apparel, and walketh in his great strength. I speak in righteousness, and am mighty to save.
2Wherefore is thine apparel red, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winepress?
3I have trodden the winepress alone, and of all people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and tread them under foot in my wrath, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5And I looked, and there was none to help, and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm helped me, and my wrath itself sustained me.
6Therefore I will tread down the people in my wrath, and make them drunken in mine indignation, and will bring down their strength to the earth.
7I will remember the mercy of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according unto all that the Lord hath given us, and for the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath given them according to his tender love, and according to his great mercies.
8For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
9In all their troubles he was troubled, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he bare them and carried them always continually.
10But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore was he turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11Then he remembered the old time of Moses and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his sheep? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12He led them by the right hand of Moses with his own glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting Name.
13He led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble.
14As the beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious Name.
15Look down from heaven, and behold from the dwelling place of thine holiness, and of thy glory. Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and of thy compassion? they are restrained from me.
16Doubtless thou art our Father: though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel know us not, yet thou, O Lord, art our Father, and our redeemer: thy Name is forever.
17O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servant’s sake, and for the tribes of thine inheritance.
18The people of thine holiness have possessed it, but a little while: for our adversaries have trodden down thy Sanctuary.
19We have been as they, over whom thou never barest rule, and upon whom thy name was not called.