New heavens and earth
Isaiah 63
19 verses≈ 4 minBSB
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Where we are
- 1–5Zion on trialJudah’s sin, the mountain raised, the vineyard’s song
- 6Holy, holy, holyIsaiah’s call, in the year King Uzziah died (about 740 BC)
- 7–12ImmanuelAhaz’s fear, the sign, the Child, the shoot of Jesse
- 13–23The nations judgedBabylon to Tyre: the LORD is Judge of all the earth
- 24–27The whole earthThe earth laid waste, and death swallowed up
- 28–35Woe and a KingEgypt’s help or the LORD’s, and the King in His beauty
- 36–39Hezekiah’s crisisSennacherib, 701 BC: the prayer, the sickness, the envoys
- 40–48Comfort My peopleTo the exiles ahead: Cyrus, the idols, the Servant
- 49–55The Servant and ZionPierced for our transgressions; Zion restored
- 56–66New heavens and earthA house of prayer, the Anointed One, all things newChapter 63
God’s Vengeance on the Nations
Isaiah
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?
God
“It is I, proclaiming vindication,
mighty to save.”
Isaiah
Why are Your clothes red,
and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
God
“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.
For the day of vengeance was in My heart,
and the year of My redemption had come.
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.”
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Question
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The watchman asks, “Who is this coming from Edom?” and the answer comes back, “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
Revelation 19 takes up the picture of 63:1–3. Who treads the winepress there?
God’s Mercies Recalled
Isaiah
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.
For He said, “They are surely My people,
sons who will not be disloyal.”
So He became their Savior.
In all their distress, He too was afflicted,
and the Angel of His Presence saved them.
In His love and compassion He redeemed them;
He lifted them up and carried them
all the days of old.
Isaiah 63:9
But they rebelled
and grieved His Holy Spirit.
So He turned and became their enemy,
and He Himself fought against them.
Isaiah
who sent His glorious arm
to lead them by the right hand of Moses,
who divided the waters before them
to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
who led them through the depths
like a horse in the wilderness,
so that they did not stumble?
Like cattle going down to the valley,
the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest.
You led Your people this way
to make for Yourself a glorious name.
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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain
A Prayer for Mercy
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways
and harden our hearts from fearing You?
Return, for the sake of Your servants,
the tribes of Your heritage.
Pray
Pray
LORD, in all our distress You too were afflicted. You lifted Your people up and carried them. You are our Father, our Redeemer from Everlasting. Look down from heaven and see, and return for the sake of Your servants. Amen.
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In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah 63:9
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