1 Wie is dit wat daar aankom uit Edom, met bloedrooi klere uit Bosra? Hy daar, pragtig in sy gewaad, wat agteroor buig in die volheid van sy krag? Dit is Ek wat in geregtigheid spreek, wat magtig is om te verlos.

2 Waarom is u gewaad so rooi, en u klere soos die van een wat die wynpers trap?

3 Ek het die pers alleen getrap, en van die volke was niemand by My nie; en Ek het hulle getrap in my toorn en hulle vertrap in my grimmigheid, sodat hulle lewensap op my klere gespat en Ek my hele gewaad bevlek het.

4 Want die dag van wraak was in my hart, en die jaar van my verlossing het gekom.

5 En Ek het uitgekyk, maar daar was geen helper nie; en Ek het My verbaas, maar daar was niemand wat ondersteun nie. Toe het my arm My gehelp en my grimmigheid het My ondersteun.

6 En Ek het volke vertrap in my toorn en hulle dronk gemaak in my grimmigheid; en Ek het hulle lewensap op die aarde laat afloop.

7 Ek sal die goedertierenhede van die HERE prys, die roemryke dade van die HERE, ooreenkomstig alles wat die HERE aan ons bewys het, en die veelvuldige goedheid jeens die huis van Israel wat Hy aan hulle bewys het, na sy barmhartighede en na die grootheid van sy goedertierenhede.

8 Want Hy het gesê: Hulle is tog my volk, kinders wat nie sal lieg nie. So het Hy dan vir hulle 'n Heiland geword.

9 In al hulle benoudheid was Hy benoud, en die Engel van sy aangesig het hulle verlos; deur sy liefde en deur sy medelyde het Hy hulle verlos; en Hy het hulle opgehef en hulle gedra, al die dae van die ou tyd.

10 Maar hulle was wederstrewig en het sy Heilige Gees bedroef; daarom het Hy vir hulle in 'n vyand verander: Hy self het teen hulle gestry.

11 Toe het sy volk gedink aan die dae van die ou tyd, van Moses: Waar is Hy wat hulle uit die see laat optrek het saam met die herder van sy kudde? Waar is Hy wat sy Heilige Gees in hulle midde gegee het?

12 Wat sy heerlike arm laat trek het aan die regterhand van Moses; wat die waters voor hulle uit gekloof het, om vir Hom 'n ewige Naam te maak?

13 Wat hulle deur die watervloede laat trek het soos 'n perd deur die woestyn, sonder om te struikel?

14 Soos vee wat aftrek in die laagte, het die Gees van die HERE hulle na die rus gelei. So het U u volk gelei, om vir U 'n heerlike Naam te maak.

15 Kyk van die hemel neer en aanskou uit u heilige en heerlike woning! Waar is u ywer en u magtige dade? Die ontroering van u binneste en u barmhartighede het hulle jeens my ingehou.

16 Want U is ons Vader! Want Abraham weet van ons nie, en Israel ken ons nie. U, o HERE, is ons Vader; ons Verlosser is van ouds af u Naam.

17 HERE, waarom laat U ons wegdwaal van u weë? Waarom verhard U ons hart, sodat ons U nie vrees nie? Keer terug ter wille van u knegte, die stamme van u erfdeel!

18 U heilige volk het dit vir 'n kort rukkie besit; ons teëstanders het u heiligdom vertrap.

19 Ons het geword soos hulle oor wie U nie van ouds af geheers het nie, oor wie u Naam nie uitgeroep is nie.

1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.

2 Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?

3 I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.

4 For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.

5 And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.

6 And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

7 I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.

8 For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.

9 It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.

10 But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.

11 Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,

12 He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;

13 He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?

14 Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.

15 Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

16 For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

18 Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

19 We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.