[1] Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he
whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose
glory is in the right, strong for salvation. [2] Why is your clothing red,
and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes? [3] I
have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no
man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my
feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is
red. [4] For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the
payment of the price for my people has come. [5] And I saw that there was
no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did
the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support. [6] And in my passion
the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put
down their strength to the earth. [7] I will give news of the mercies of
the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us,
in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in
his unnumbered mercies. [8] For he said, Truly they are my people, children
who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.
[9] It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in
his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his
arms, caring for them all through the years. [10] But they went against
him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and
made war on them. [11] Then the early days came to their minds, the days of
Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his
flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,
[12] He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by
whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;
[13] He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste
land? [14] Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without
falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your
people, to make yourself a great name. [15] Let your eyes be looking down
from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep
feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your
pity and your mercies: [16] For you are our father, though Abraham has no
knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our
father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause. [17] O Lord,
why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so
that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the
tribes of your heritage. [18] Why have evil men gone over your holy place,
so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters? [19] We have
become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not
named.
