God’s Vengeance on the Nations

Who is this coming from Edom,

from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments?

Who is this robed in splendor,

marching in the greatness of His strength?

“ It is I, proclaiming vindication,[fn]

mighty to save.”

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Why are Your clothes red,

and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

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“ I have trodden the winepress alone

and no one from the nations was with Me.

I trampled them in My anger

and trod them down in My fury;

their blood spattered My garments,

and all My clothes were stained.

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For the day of vengeance was in My heart,

and the year of My redemption had come.

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I looked, but there was no one to help;

I was appalled that no one assisted.

So My arm brought Me salvation

and My own wrath upheld Me.

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I trampled the nations in My anger;

in My wrath I made them drunk

and poured out their blood on the ground.”

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