I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”
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I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”
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And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
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And I trod down the peoples in Mine anger, and made them drunk with My fury, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.'
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Passages linked to Isaiah 63:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 49:26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- Revelation 14:10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
- Revelation 16:19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
- Job 21:20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
- Psalms 60:3 You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
- Psalms 75:8 For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
- Isaiah 25:10-12 For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands. He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
- Isaiah 26:5-6 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust. The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.”
- Isaiah 29:9 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
- Isaiah 51:21-23 Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more. I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
- Isaiah 63:2-3 Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat? “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.
- Jeremiah 25:16-17 They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.” Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
- Jeremiah 25:26-27 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth. The king of Sheshach will drink after them. “You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’
- Lamentations 3:15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
- Revelation 16:6 For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
- Revelation 18:3-6 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.” I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues, for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities. Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.
- Revelation 18:21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain I will so astonish them and make them so…
I will so astonish them and make them so giddy, that they shall not know which way to go.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 63:6 And I will tread down the people…
Isa 63:6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Ver. 6. Make them drunk in my fury.] I will give them large draughts of my displeasure. {as Psa 75:9} I will infatuate and utterly disable them to rebel and resist; yea, I will make them drunk with their own blood, as with new wine. {Isa 49:26 Rev 16:6} {See Trapp on "Rev 16:6"} The perverse Jews, at the last destruction of their city, became a famous instance, being buried, as it were, in a bog of blood.
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And I will bring down their strength.] Or, Their blood, as it is rendered Isa 63:3, eo quod vita et virtus hominis in sanguine, {a} because life and strength is in the blood.
{a} Oecolam.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Make them drunk: the Hebrew often expresseth calamities by…
Make them drunk: the Hebrew often expresseth calamities by a cup of wine, or strong drink, by which the distressed persons are made drunk, Psa 75:8; Isa 51:21,22; they go as it were to and fro, not knowing what to do with themselves; and in special drunk with their own blood, Isa 49:26; Rev 16:6.
I will bring down their strength to the earth; whatever it is wherein their strength lies, their strong ones, or their strong places, or deep counsels, &c., he will bring to the very dust, to nothing; like drunken men, they shall fall to the ground, not being able to stand; the most miserable condition that men can fall into, Psa 36:12.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I will tread down the people in mine…
And I will tread down the people in mine anger,.... See Gill on Isa 63:3,
and make them drunk in my fury; or with it (s) the wrath of God is signified by a cup, which he gives wicked men to drink, and which is an inebriating one to them, Psa 75:8, and here it signifies the cup of the wine of the fierceness of God's wrath, which shall be given to mystical Babylon, to antichrist and his followers, Rev 14:10,
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and I will bring down their strength to the earth; their strong kingdoms, fortified cities, and mighty men, their wealth and riches, of which they boasted, and in which they trusted; see Isa 26:5. The eighteenth chapter of the Revelation is a commentary on these words.
(s) "excandescentia mea", Junius & Tremellius; "aestu meo", Cocceius; so Gataker.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Drunk - They go as it were to and…
Drunk - They go as it were to and fro, not knowing what to do with themselves. Bring down - Whatever it is wherein their strength lies, he will bring to the very dust, to nothing.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. And make them drunk in my fury…
Verse 6. And make them drunk in my fury - "And I crushed them in mine indignation"] For ואשכרם vaashkerem, and I made them drunken, twenty-seven MSS., (three ancient,) twelve of De Rossi's, and the old edition of 1488, have ואשברם vaashabberem, and I crushed them: and so the Syriac and Chaldee. The Septuagint have omitted this whole line.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And I will tread them down - Or rather,…
And I will tread them down - Or rather, ‘I did tread them down.’ The allusion here is to a warrior who tramples on his foes and treads them in the dust (see the notes at Isa 25:10).
And made them drunk - That is, I made them reel and fall under my fury like a drunken man. In describing the destruction of Idumea in Isa 34:5, Yahweh says that his sword was made drunk, or that it rushed intoxicated from heaven. See the notes on that verse. But here he says that the people, under the terrors of his wrath, lost their power of self-command, and fell to the earth like an intoxicated man. Kimchi says that the idea is, that Yahweh extended the cup of his wrath for them to drink until they became intoxicated and fell. An image of this kind is several times used in the Scriptures (see the notes at Isa 51:17; compare Psa 75:8). Lowth and Noyes render this, ‘I crushed them.’ The reason of this change is, that according to Kennicott, twenty-seven manuscripts (three of them ancient) instead of the present Hebrew reading ואשׁכרם va'ăshakerēm, ‘And I will make them drunk,’ read ואשׁברם va'ăshaberēm, ‘I will break or crush them.’ Such a change, it is true, might easily have been made from the similarity of the Hebrew letters, כ (k) and ב (b). But the authority for the change does not seem to me to be sufficient, nor is it necessary. The image of making them stagger and fall like a drunken man, is more poetic than the other, and is in entire accordance with the usual manner of writing by the sacred penman. The Chaldee renders it, ‘I cast to the lowest earth the slain of their strong ones.’
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And I will bring down their strength - I subdued their strong places, and their mighty armies. Such is the sense giver, to the passage by our translators. But Lowth and Noyes render it, more correctly, ‘I spilled their life-blood upon the ground.’ The word which our translators have rendered ‘strength’ (נצח nētsach), is the same word which is used in Isa 63:3, and which is rendered there ‘blood’ (see the note at that verse). It is probably used in the same sense here, and means that Yahweh had brought their blood to the earth; that is, he had spilled it upon the ground. So the Septuagint renders it, ‘I shed their blood (κατήγαγον τὸ αίμα katēgagon to haima) upon the earth.’ This finishes the vision of the mighty conqueror returning from Edom. The following verse introduces a new subject. The sentiment in the passage is, that Yahweh by his own power, and by the might of his own arm, would subdue all his foes and redeem his people. Edom in its hostility to his people, the apt emblem of all his foes, would be completely humbled; and in its subjugation there would be the emblem and the pledge that all his enemies would be destroyed, and that his own church would be safe. See the notes at Isa. 34; Isa 35:1-10.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Drunk with the wine of my fury, Psalm lxxiv.…
Drunk with the wine of my fury, Psalm lxxiv. 9., and Ezechiel xxiii. 31. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Rather, preterites, "I trod down . . . made…
Rather, preterites, "I trod down . . . made them drunk." The same image occurs Isa 51:17, Isa 51:21-23; Psa 75:8; Jer 25:26-27.
will bring down . . . strength to . . . earth--rather, "I spilled their life-blood (the same Hebrew words as in Isa 63:3) on the earth" [LOWTH and Septuagint].
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. Repetition of the thought of Isa_63:3.
6. Repetition of the thought of Isa_63:3.
And I will tread down the people] R.V. rightly, And I trod down the peoples, though the verb differs from either of those in Isa_63:3. Past tenses are to be restored throughout.
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make (made) them drunk] Some MSS., as well as the first printed edition of the Hebrew Bible (Soncino, 1488) read “broke them in pieces.” The Targ. likewise supports this reading, which is more suitable to the context than that of the received text. The orthographic difference is minute (substitution of ב for כ).
and I will … strength] R.V. and I poured out their lifeblood,—as in Isa_63:3. The A.V. thinks of another noun, similar in form, but from a different root, meaning “glory” (cf. 1Sa_15:29).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) I will tread down . . .—Better, I…
(6) I will tread down . . .—Better, I trod; and so throughout the verse.
Make them drunk, implies a change of imagery from that of the battle to that of the cup of wrath, as in Isa_51:17, Psa_75:8, Jer_25:15. The section which thus closes has often been applied (as, e.g., in the Prayer-Book Epistle for the Monday before Easter) to the passion of our Lord. In that agony and death it has been said He was alone, and none was with Him. He trod the winepress of the wrath of God. It is obvious, however, that this, though we may legitimately apply some of Isaiah’s phrases to it, is not an interpretation of this passage, which paints a victory, and not a passion. The true analogue in the New Testament is that of the victory of the triumphant Christ in Rev_19:11-13; but it may be conceded that, from one point of view, the agony and the cross were themselves a conflict with the powers of evil (Joh_12:31-32; Col_2:15), and that as He came out of that conflict as a conqueror, the words in which Isaiah paints the victor over Edom may, though in a much remoter analogy, be applicable to Him in that conflict also.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I will tread down... make drunk ... bring down;…
I will tread down... make drunk ... bring down; rather, I trode down... made drunk... brought down. See the comment on ver. 3. The destruction was to be utter, overwhelming, absolute one from which there could be no recovery. (comp. Rev_19:11-21, where the simile of the wine-press, and the "vesture dipped in blood," seem introduced with a special reference to this passage)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 63:6 made them stagger: The wicked nations would be…
63:6 made them stagger: The wicked nations would be forced to drink from the intoxicating cup of God’s wrath (49:26; 51:17, 21).
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