1 W ho is this Who comes from Edom, with crimson-stained garments from Bozrah ? This One Who is glorious in His apparel, striding triumphantly in the greatness of His might? It is I, Who speaks in righteousness, mighty to save!

¶ Who is this that comes from Edom, with red garments from Bozrah? This glorious one in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

2 W hy is Your apparel splashed with red, and Your garments like the one who treads in the winepress?

Why art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treads in the winefat?

3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there was no one with Me. I trod them in My anger and trampled them in My wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon My garments, and I stained all My raiment.

I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no one with me; for I have trodden them with my anger and have trampled them with my fury; and their blood sprinkled my garments and stained all my raiment.

4 F or the day of vengeance was in My heart, and My year of redemption has come.

For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

5 A nd I looked, but there was no one to help; I was amazed and appalled that there was no one to uphold. So My own arm brought Me victory, and My wrath upheld Me.

And I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold me; therefore my own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

6 I trod down the peoples in My anger and made them drink of the cup of My wrath until they were intoxicated, and I spilled their lifeblood upon the earth.

And I have trampled down the people with my anger and made them drunk in my fury, and I brought down their strength to the earth.

7 I will recount the loving-kindnesses of the Lord and the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel, which He has granted them according to His mercy and according to the multitude of His loving-kindnesses.

¶ I will mention the mercies of the LORD and the praises of the LORD according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us and the greatness of his goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his mercies.

8 F or He said, Surely they are My people, sons who will not lie; and so He was to them a Savior.

For he said, Surely they are my people, sons that do not lie: and he was their Saviour.

9 I n 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 lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his face saved them: with his love and with his clemency he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of the age.

10 B ut they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; therefore He turned to become their enemy and Himself fought against them.

But they were rebels and angered his holy Spirit; therefore, he was turned to be their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

11 T hen His people remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people, Where is He Who brought up out of the Sea, with shepherds of His flock? Where is He Who put His Holy Spirit within their midst,

Then he remembered the days of old, of 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?

12 W ho caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make for Himself an everlasting name,

He that led them by the right hand of Moses with the arm of his glory, he who divided the water before them, thus making himself an everlasting name.

13 W ho led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?

He that led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, they never stumbled.

14 L ike the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused them to rest. So did You lead Your people to make for Yourself a beautiful and glorious name.

The Spirit of the LORD pastored them as a beast that goes down into the valley; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

15 L ook down from heaven and see from the dwelling place of Your holiness and Your glory. Where are Your zeal and Your jealousy and Your mighty acts ? Your yearning pity and the compassions of Your heart are restrained and withheld from me.

¶ Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory; where is thy zeal and thy strength, the feeling of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

16 F or You are our Father, even though Abraham does not know us and Israel (Jacob) does not acknowledge us; You, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Your name.

Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel not acknowledge us; thou, O LORD, art our father; our everlasting Redeemer is thy name.

17 O Lord, why have You made us to err from Your ways and hardened our hearts to fear of You? Return for Your servants’ sake, the tribes of Your heritage.

O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? Hast thou hardened our heart to thy fear? Return for thy slaves, for the tribes of thine inheritance.

18 Y our holy people possessed Your sanctuary but a little while; our adversaries have trodden it down.

The people of thy holiness have possessed the promised land but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

19 W e have become like those over whom You never exercised rule, like those who were not called by Your name.

We have been like those over whom thou didst never rule, who were never called by thy name.