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And Your garments like one who treads In His love and in His pity He
in the winepress? redeemed them;
And He bore them and carried them
“I have trodden the winepress alone,
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And from the peoples no one was with 10 All the days of old.
Me. But they rebelled and grieved His Holy
For I have trodden them in My anger, Spirit;
And trampled them in My fury; So He turned Himself against them as
Their blood is sprinkled upon My an enemy,
garments, And He fought against them.
And I have stained all My robes. 11 Then he remembered the days of old,
For the day of vengeance is in My Moses and his people, saying:
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heart, “Where is He who brought them up out
And the year of My redeemed has of the sea
come.
5 I looked, but there was no one to help, With the shepherd of His flock?
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit
And I wondered within them,
That there was no one to uphold; 12 Who led them by the right hand of
Therefore My own arm brought Moses,
salvation for Me;
And My own fury, it sustained Me. With His glorious arm,
6 Dividing the water before them
I have trodden down the peoples in My
anger, To make for Himself an everlasting
Made them drunk in My fury, name,
13 Who led them through the deep,
And brought down their strength to
the earth.” As a horse in the wilderness,
That they might not stumble?”
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I will mention the lovingkindnesses of
14 As a beast goes down into the valley,
the LORD
And the praises of the LORD, And the Spirit of the LORD causes him
According to all that the LORD has to rest,
bestowed on us, So You lead Your people,
And the great goodness toward the To make Yourself a glorious name.
house of Israel, 15 Look down from heaven,
Which He has bestowed on them And see from Your habitation, holy and
according to His mercies, glorious.
According to the multitude of His Where are Your zeal and Your strength,
lovingkindnesses.
8 The yearning of Your heart and Your
For He said, “Surely they are My people, mercies toward me?
Children who will not lie.” Are they restrained?
So He became their Savior. 16
9 In all their affliction He was afflicted, Doubtless You are our Father,
And the Angel of His Presence saved Though Abraham was ignorant of us,
And Israel does not acknowledge us.
them;
You, O LORD, are our Father;
Our Redeemer from Everlasting is
Your name.
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O LORD, why have You made us stray
63:7 lovingkindnesses…lovingkindnesses. from Your ways,
All the plurals in this verse imply that lan- And hardened our heart from Your fear?
guage is inadequate to recite all the goodness Return for Your servants’ sake,
and undeserved mercies God has showered The tribes of Your inheritance.
on the nation time after time because of His 18 Your holy people have possessed it but
everlasting covenant with them. By His elec-
tive choice, they became His people and He a little while;
their Savior (43:1,3).This guarantees that they Our adversaries have trodden down
will not always be false (“lie”), but someday Your sanctuary.
19 We have become like those of old, over
true and faithful to God because of His sover-
eign election of them. whom You never ruled,
Those who were never called by Your
name.

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