Isaiah 63:6
4 For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
5 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.
I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”
7 I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
8 For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”
- KJV
- And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
- WEB
- I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”
- ASV
- And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
- DARBY
- And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury; and their blood have I brought down to the earth.
- BLB
- And I trampled the peoples in My anger, and made them drunk in My wrath, and I poured out to the earth” their blood!
- ÅB
- og jeg trådte ned folkeslag i min vrede og gjorde dem drukne[^1] i min harme, og jeg lot deres blod rinne ned på jorden.
- OTB
- Jeg tråkket ned folkene i min vrede og gjorde dem drukne med min harme, og jeg helte ut deres livsblod på jorden."
- B1930
- og jeg trådte ned folkeslag i min vrede og gjorde dem drukne i min harme, og jeg lot deres blod rinne ned på jorden. / < JES 19, 14; 24, 20. JER 48, 26.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 49:26
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Read in contextRevelation 14:10
he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
Read in contextRevelation 16:19
The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.
Read in contextIsaiah 63:2–3
Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
Read in contextPsalms 75:8
For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.
Read in contextJob 21:20
Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
Read in contextJeremiah 25:16–17
And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
Read in contextJeremiah 25:26–27
all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.
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