1 Who 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."
2 Why 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.
4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and the year of my redeemed has come.
5 I 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.
6 I trod down the peoples in my anger
and made them drunk in my wrath.
I poured their lifeblood out on the earth."
7 I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh
and the praises of Yahweh,
according to all that Yahweh has given to us,
and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
which he has given to them according to his mercies,
and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
8 For he said, "Surely, they are my people,
children who will not deal falsely;"
so he became their Savior.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted,
and the angel of his presence saved them.
In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.
He bore them,
and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled
and grieved his Holy Spirit.
Therefore he turned and became their enemy,
and he himself fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses and his people, saying,
"Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?"
12 Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?
Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 Who led them through the depths,
like a horse in the wilderness,
so that they didn’t stumble?
14 As the livestock that go down into the valley,
Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest.
So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven,
and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
16 For you are our Father,
though Abraham doesn’t know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us.
You, Yahweh, are our Father.
Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
17 O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways,
and harden our heart from your fear?
Return for your servants’ sake,
the tribes of your inheritance.
18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while.
Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled,
like those who were not called by your name.
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.