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The Lord punishes the nations

63 Who is this who is coming from Edom?
He is coming from Bozrah
    and his clothes are bright red.
He wears beautiful royal clothes,
    and he marches forward with great strength.
He says, ‘It is me! I, the Lord, tell you that I have won the fight!
    I have the power to save you.’
But why are your clothes red?
You look like someone who has walked on grapes,
    and you have squeezed them to make wine.
He says, ‘I have walked on the grapes alone.
    Nobody from the nations came to help me.
I walked on them because I was angry.
    I squeezed them to pieces in my anger.
Their blood splashed on my clothes,
    and it made all my clothes dirty.

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God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption

63 Who is this coming from Edom,(A)
    from Bozrah,(B) with his garments stained crimson?(C)
Who is this, robed in splendor,
    striding forward in the greatness of his strength?(D)

“It is I, proclaiming victory,
    mighty to save.”(E)

Why are your garments red,
    like those of one treading the winepress?(F)

“I have trodden the winepress(G) alone;
    from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled(H) them in my anger
    and trod them down in my wrath;(I)
their blood spattered my garments,(J)
    and I stained all my clothing.

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