12AND PEOPLE WILL CALL <TO> THEM [THE] PEOPLE OF <THE> HOLINESS [THE] REDEEMED OF YAHWEH AND TO YOU IT WILL BE CALLED [ONE] SOUGHT OUT A CITY [WHICH] NOT IT HAS BEEN FORSAKEN 12And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
1WHO? THIS [IS] COMING FROM EDOM RED OF GARMENTS FROM BOZRAH THIS ONE [IS] ADORNED IN CLOTHING HIS [IS] STOOPING IN [THE] GREATNESS OF STRENGTH HIS I [AM] SPEAKING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS GREAT TO SAVE God’s Vengeance on the Nations 1Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication,*NoteCloseOr It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.”
2WHY? [DOES] REDNESS [BELONG] TO CLOTHING YOUR AND [ARE] GARMENTS? YOUR LIKE [ONE WHO] TREADS IN A WINEPRESS 2Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
3[THE] WINEPRESS I HAVE TRODDEN TO ALONE ME AND FROM PEOPLES NOT ANYONE [WAS] WITH ME AND I TROD THEM IN ANGER MY AND I TRAMPLED THEM IN RAGE MY AND IT SPATTERED BLOOD THEIR ON GARMENTS MY AND ALL CLOTHES MY I HAVE DEFILED 3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
4FOR A DAY OF VENGEANCE [WAS] IN HEART MY AND [THE] YEAR OF REDEMPTION<S> MY IT HAD COME 4For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
5AND I MAY LOOK AND THERE NOT [WAS] A HELPER AND I MAY BE APPALLED AND THERE NOT [WAS] A SUSTAINER AND IT GAVE VICTORY TO ME ARM MY AND RAGE MY IT IT SUSTAINED ME 5I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.
6AND I MAY TREAD DOWN PEOPLES IN ANGER MY AND I MADE DRUNK THEM IN RAGE MY SO I MAY BRING DOWN TO THE GROUND BLOOD THEIR 6I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”
7[THE] COVENANT LOYALTI<ES> OF YAHWEH I WILL BRING TO REMEMBRANCE [THE] PRAISES OF YAHWEH AS ON ALL THAT HE HAS DEALT OUT TO US YAHWEH AND [THE] GREATNESS OF GOODNESS TO [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL WHICH HE HAS DEALT OUT TO THEM ACCORDING TO COMPASSION<S> HIS AND ACCORDING TO [THE] GREATNESS OF COVENANT LOYALTI<ES> HIS God’s Mercies Recalled 7I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
8AND HE SAID SURELY [ARE] PEOPLE MY THEY CHILDREN [WHO] NOT THEY WILL DEAL FALSELY AND HE BECAME OF THEM <INTO> A DELIVERER 8For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.
9IN ALL DISTRESS THEIR [BELONGED] TO HIM DISTRESS AND [THE] ANGEL OF PRESENCE HIS IT SAVED THEM IN LOVE HIS AND IN MERCY HIS HE HE REDEEMED THEM AND HE LIFTED UP THEM AND HE CARRIED THEM ALL [THE] DAYS OF ANTIQUITY 9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence*NoteCloseOr angel of His presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
10AND THEY THEY REBELLED AND THEY GRIEVED <OBJ.> [THE] SPIRIT OF HOLINESS HIS AND HE CHANGED HIMSELF OF THEM INTO AN ENEMY HE HE FOUGHT AGAINST THEM 10But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
11AND IT REMEMBERED [THE] DAYS OF ANTIQUITY MOSES PEOPLE HIS WHERE? [IS] WHO BROUGHT UP THEM FROM [THE] SEA WITH [THE] SHEPHERDS OF FLOCK HIS WHERE? [IS] THE [ONE WHO] PUT IN MIDST ITS <OBJ.> [THE] SPIRIT OF HOLINESS HIS 11Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
12[WHO] CAUSED TO GO TO [THE] RIGHT [HAND] OF MOSES [THE] ARM OF SPLENDOR HIS [WHO] SPLIT OPEN [THE] WATERS FROM BEFORE THEM TO MAKE FOR <THE> HIMSELF A NAME OF PERPETUITY 12who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
13[WHO] CAUSED TO WALK THEM IN THE DEEPS LIKE <THE> HORSE IN THE WILDERNESS NOT THEY STUMBLED 13who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?
14LIKE <THE> LIVESTOCK [WHICH] IN THE VALLEY IT GOES DOWN [THE] SPIRIT OF YAHWEH IT GAVE REST IT SO YOU LED PEOPLE YOUR TO MAKE FOR <THE> YOURSELF A NAME OF SPLENDOR 14Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.
15LOOK FROM HEAVEN AND SEE FROM [THE] LOFTY ABODE OF HOLINESS YOUR AND SPLENDOR YOUR WHERE? [ARE] ZEAL YOUR AND MIGHTY DEEDS YOUR [THE] TUMULT OF INWARD PARTS YOUR AND COMPASSION<S> YOUR TO ME THEY HAVE RESTRAINED THEMSELVES A Prayer for Mercy (Jeremiah 14:19–22) 15Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
16FOR YOU [ARE] FATHER OUR FOR ABRAHAM NOT HE KNOWS US AND ISRAEL NOT HE ACKNOWLEDGES US YOU O YAHWEH [ARE] FATHER OUR [IS] REDEEMER OUR FROM LONG AGO NAME YOUR 16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
17<TO> WHY? DO YOU MAKE WANDER US O YAHWEH FROM WAYS YOUR DO YOU HARDEN? HEART OUR FROM FEAR OF YOU RETURN FOR [THE] SAKE OF SERVANTS YOUR [THE] TRIBES OF INHERITANCE YOUR 17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
18FOR <THE> LITTLE WHILE THEY POSSESSED [THE] PEOPLE OF HOLINESS YOUR OPPONENTS OUR THEY HAVE TRODDEN DOWN SANCTUARY YOUR 18For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
19WE HAVE BEEN FROM LONG AGO NOT YOU RULED OVER THEM NOT IT WAS CALLED NAME YOUR ON THEM 19We have become like those You never ruled like those not called by Your name.