Isaiah 63:6

Isaiah 63:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)I trampled the nations in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)I trampled down the peoples in my anger; I made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."
• New King James Version (NKJV)I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, Made them drunk in My fury, And brought down their strength to the earth.”

Context of Isaiah 63:6

4For I planned the day of vengeance, and the year of my redemption came. 5I looked, but there was no one to help, and I was amazed that no one assisted; so my arm accomplished victory for me, and my wrath assisted me. I crushed nations in my anger; I made them drunk with my wrath and poured out their blood on the ground. 7I will make known the Lord’s faithful love and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts, because of all the Lord has done for us — even the many good things he has done for the house of Israel, which he did for them based on his compassion and the abundance of his faithful love. 8He said, “They are indeed my people, children who will not be disloyal,” and he became their Savior.

Isaiah 63:6 word by word

וְאָב֤וּס עַמִּים֙ בְּאַפִּ֔י וַאֲשַׁכְּרֵ֖ם בַּחֲמָתִ֑י וְאוֹרִ֥יד לָאָ֖רֶץ נִצְחָֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I will tread downבּוּסbûs · to trampleH947
• the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• in mine angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• and make them drunkשָׁכַרshâkar · be drunkH7937
• in my furyחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
• and I will bring downיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• their strengthנֵ֫צַחnêtsach · lifebloodH5332
• to the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776

Cross-references for Isaiah 63:6

• Isaiah 63:2Why are your clothes red, and your garments like one who treads a winepress?
• Isaiah 49:26I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they will be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. Then all humanity will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
• Isaiah 51:21So listen to this, suffering and drunken one — but not with wine.
• Job 21:20Let his own eyes see his demise; let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath!
• Psalms 60:3You have made your people suffer hardship; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.
• Psalms 75:8For there is a cup in the Lord’s hand, full of wine blended with spices, and he pours from it. All the wicked of the earth will drink, draining it to the dregs.
• Jeremiah 25:16They will drink, stagger, and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.”
• Lamentations 3:15He filled me with bitterness, satiated me with wormwood.
• Revelation 14:10he will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, which is poured full strength into the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb,
• Revelation 16:6Because they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, you have given them blood to drink; they deserve it!
• Revelation 18:3For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.
• Isaiah 25:10For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trampled in a dung pile.
• Isaiah 26:5For he has humbled those who live in lofty places — an inaccessible city. He brings it down; he brings it down to the ground; he throws it to the dust.
• Revelation 18:21Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, In this way, Babylon the great city will be thrown down violently and never be found again.

Commentaries on Isaiah 63:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6And 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6And 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 Isaiah 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 Isaiah 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6made them drunk: This phrase describes God’s judgment. The wicked nations are pictured as people who drink strong wine and cannot stand straight. They are forced to drink from the cup of God’s wrath (his anger against sin). This image shows that they cannot escape his punishment (Isaiah 49:26; 51:17, 21).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Rather, preterites, "I trod down ... made them drunk." The same image occurs Is 51:17, 21-23; Psa 75:8; Jr 25:26, 27. will bring down ... strength to ... earth--rather, "I spilled their life-blood (the same Hebrew words as in Is 63:3) on the earth" [Lowth and Septuagint].Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 63:6

• Anger
• Drunkenness

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Commentaries on Isaiah 63

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings