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 day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 5And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. 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. 7I will mention the lovingkindnesses of Yhwh, and the praises of Yhwh, according to all that Yhwh hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 8For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.

Isaiah 63:6 word by word

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

• 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 63:2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
• Isaiah 49:26And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I Yhwh am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
• Isaiah 51:21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
• Job 21:20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
• Psalms 60:3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
• Psalms 75:8For in the hand of Yhwh there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
• Jeremiah 25:16And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
• Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
• Revelation 14:10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
• Revelation 16:6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
• Revelation 18:3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
• Isaiah 25:10For in this mountain shall the hand of Yhwh rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
• Isaiah 26:5For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
• Revelation 18:21And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

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