New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 ‘Who is this coming from Edom,
coming from Bozrah, his garments stained red?
Under his clothes his muscles stand out,
and he strides, stooping in his might.’
It is I, who announce that right has won the day,
I, who am strong to save.
2 ‘Why is your clothing all red,
like the garments of one who treads grapes in the vat?’
3 I have trodden the winepress alone;
no man, no nation was with me.
I trod them down in my rage,
I trampled them in my fury;
and their life-blood spurted over my garments
and stained all my clothing.
4 For I resolved on a day of vengeance;
the year for ransoming my own had come.
5 I looked for a helper but found no one,
I was amazed that there was no one to support me;
yet my own arm brought me victory,
alone my anger supported me.
6 I stamped on nations in my fury,
I pierced them in my rage
and let their life-blood run out upon the ground.
7 I will recount the Lord's acts of unfailing love
and the Lord's praises as High God,
all that the Lord has done for us
and his great goodness to the house of Israel,
all that he has done for them in his tenderness
and by his many acts of love.
8 He said, ‘Surely they are my people,
my sons who will not play me false’;
9 and he became their deliverer in all their troubles.
It was no envoy, no angel, but he himself that delivered them;
he himself ransomed them by his love and pity,
lifted them up and carried them
through all the years gone by.
10 Yet they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit;
only then was he changed into their enemy
and himself fought against them.
11 Then men remembered days long past
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Promise of the new Jerusalem
and him who drew out note his people: note
Where is he who brought them up from the Nile note
with the shepherd note of his flock?
Where is he who put within him
his holy spirit,
12 who made his glorious power march
at the right hand of Moses,
dividing the waters before them,
to win for himself an everlasting name,
13 causing them to go through the depths
sure-footed as horses in the wilderness,
14 like cattle moving down into a valley without stumbling,
guided note by the spirit of the Lord?
So didst thou lead thy people
to win thyself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven and behold
from the heights where thou dwellest holy and glorious.
Where is thy zeal, thy valour,
thy burning and tender love?
16 Stand not aloof; note for thou art our father,
though Abraham does not know us nor Israel acknowledge us.
Thou, Lord, art our father;
thy name is our Ransomer note from of old.
17 Why, Lord, dost thou let us wander from thy ways
and harden our hearts until we cease to fear thee?
turn again for the sake of thy servants,
the tribes of thy patrimony.
18 Why have wicked men trodden down thy sanctuary, note
why have our enemies trampled on thy shrine?
19 We have long been reckoned as beyond thy sway,
as if we had not been named thy own.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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