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 the time has come for me to avenge my people, to ransom them from their oppressors. 5I was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. So I myself stepped in to save them with my strong arm, and my wrath sustained me. I crushed the nations in my anger and made them stagger and fall to the ground, spilling their blood upon the earth.” 7I will tell of the Lord’s unfailing love. I will praise the Lord for all he has done. I will rejoice in his great goodness to Israel, which he has granted according to his mercy and love. 8He said, “They are my very own people. Surely they will not betray me again.” 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 so red, as if you have been treading out grapes?
• Isaiah 49:26I will feed your enemies with their own flesh. They will be drunk with rivers of their own blood. All the world will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Israel.”
• Isaiah 51:21But now listen to this, you afflicted ones who sit in a drunken stupor, though not from drinking wine.
• Job 21:20Let them see their destruction with their own eyes. Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.
• Psalms 60:3You have been very hard on us, making us drink wine that sent us reeling.
• Psalms 75:8For the Lord holds a cup in his hand that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours out the wine in judgment, and all the wicked must drink it, draining it to the dregs.
• Jeremiah 25:16When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them.”
• Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
• Revelation 14:10must drink the wine of God’s anger. It has been poured full strength into God’s cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb.
• Revelation 16:6Since they shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets, you have given them blood to drink. It is their just reward.”
• Revelation 18:3For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of her passionate immorality. The kings of the world have committed adultery with her. Because of her desires for extravagant luxury, the merchants of the world have grown rich.”
• Isaiah 25:10For the Lord’s hand of blessing will rest on Jerusalem. But Moab will be crushed. It will be like straw trampled down and left to rot.
• Isaiah 26:5He humbles the proud and brings down the arrogant city. He brings it down to the dust.
• Revelation 18:21Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a huge millstone. He threw it into the ocean and shouted, “Just like this, the great city Babylon will be thrown down with violence and will 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
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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