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The Lord in Judgment and Salvation
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# Chapter 63
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1. Who is this who comes from Edom,
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With dyed garments from Bozrah,
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This One who is glorious in His apparel,
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Traveling in the greatness of His strength?--
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"I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save."
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2. Why is Your apparel red,
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And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?
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3. "I have trodden the winepress alone,
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And from the peoples no one was with Me.
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For I have trodden them in My anger,
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And trampled them in My fury;
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Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,
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And I have stained all My robes.
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4. For the day of vengeance is in My heart,
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And the year of My redeemed has come.
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5. I looked, but there was no one to help,
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And I wondered
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That there was no one to uphold;
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Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me;
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And My own fury, it sustained Me.
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6. I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,
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Made them drunk in My fury,
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And brought down their strength to the earth."
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God's Mercy Remembered
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7. I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord
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And the praises of the Lord,
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According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us,
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And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
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Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,
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According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.
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8. For He said, "Surely they are My people,
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Children who will not lie."
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So He became their Savior.
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9. In all their affliction He was afflicted,
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And the Angel of His Presence saved them;
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In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;
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And He bore them and carried them
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All the days of old.
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10. But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit;
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So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,
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And He fought against them.
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11. Then he remembered the days of old,
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Moses and his people, saying:
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"Where is He who brought them up out of the sea
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With the shepherd of His flock?
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Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,
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12. Who led them by the right hand of Moses,
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With His glorious arm,
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Dividing the water before them
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To make for Himself an everlasting name,
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13. Who led them through the deep,
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As a horse in the wilderness,
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That they might not stumble?"
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14. As a beast goes down into the valley,
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And the Spirit of the Lord causes him to rest,
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So You lead Your people,
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To make Yourself a glorious name.
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A Prayer of Penitence
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15. Look down from heaven,
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And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious.
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Where are Your zeal and Your strength,
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The yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me?
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Are they restrained?
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16. Doubtless You are our Father,
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Though Abraham was ignorant of us,
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And Israel does not acknowledge us.
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You, O Lord, are our Father;
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Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
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17. O Lord, why have You made us stray from Your ways,
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And hardened our heart from Your fear?
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Return for Your servants' sake,
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The tribes of Your inheritance.
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18. Your holy people have possessed it but a little while;
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Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
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19. We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,
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Those who were never called by Your name.
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