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God’s Vengeance on the Nations
Isaiah 63:1–6 is a prophecy with strong picture language. It shows a powerful speaker whose red-stained clothing leads to an explanation about judgement, righteousness and saving power.
Understanding the passage
The setting of this message
The passage begins with questions about a figure coming from Edom and Bozrah in glorious clothing and great strength. The figure answers directly, explaining the meaning of the red garments, the day of vengeance and the year of the redeemed.
Isaiah 63:1–6Main takeaway
This prophecy uses vivid imagery to show that the speaker’s judgement is serious and that he also declares power to save.
Explore the message
Open a card to explore the full explanation and its Bible references.
01Who is coming?The opening asks who is coming from Edom and Bozrah, clothed gloriously and moving in great strength.
Explanation
The opening asks who is coming from Edom and Bozrah, clothed gloriously and moving in great strength. The answer identifies the speaker by his character and power: he speaks in righteousness and is mighty to save. The prophecy first presents authority, justice and rescue.
02Why are the garments red?A second question compares the clothing to someone who treads a wine vat. The speaker explains that he has trodden the wine press alone.
Explanation
A second question compares the clothing to someone who treads a wine vat. The speaker explains that he has trodden the wine press alone. No one from the peoples was with him. The image is not about harvest work but about judgement described through a familiar picture.
03Judgement described in vivid languageThe speaker says he trod and trampled in anger and wrath, and that lifeblood stained his garments.
Explanation
The speaker says he trod and trampled in anger and wrath, and that lifeblood stained his garments. This is prophetic imagery with a sober message. The repeated language of anger, wrath and trampling shows the seriousness of the judgement being announced.
04Vengeance and the redeemedVerse 4 places vengeance beside redemption: the day of vengeance was in his heart, and the year of his redeemed had come.
Explanation
Verse 4 places vengeance beside redemption: the day of vengeance was in his heart, and the year of his redeemed had come. The speaker also says there was no one to help, so his own arm brought salvation. The passage stresses that this work belongs to him alone.
Questions to explore
Pause, look back at the verses and talk together.
01How does the speaker describe himself in the first answer?
Look at the exact words about righteousness and saving power at the start of the passage.
02What explanation is given for the red garments?
Use the speaker’s own words about the wine press and stained clothing.
03What two ideas are joined together in verse 4?
Notice the paired phrases about vengeance and the redeemed.
Read the Bible passage
World English Bible ClassicScripture quotation · Public domain
Isaiah 63:1–6
1Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
2Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?
3“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
5I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.
6I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”