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 a day of vengeance was in My heart, and My year of redemption has come. 5I looked, but there was no one to help. I was amazed, but no one was assisting. So My own arm won victory for Me, and My wrath upheld Me. So I trod down the peoples in My anger, and made them drunk in My wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.” 7I will remember the lovingkindnesses of Adonai, the praises of Adonai, according to all that Adonai has granted us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which He has granted them according to His compassion, and according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses. 8For He said, “Surely they are My people, children who will not deal falsely.” So 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 63:2“Why is Your apparel so red, and Your garments like one who treads in a wine press?”
• Isaiah 49:26I will feed your oppressors their flesh. They will be drunk with their blood as with sweet wine. Then all flesh will know that I, Adonai, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
• Isaiah 51:21Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine.
• Job 21:20Let his own eyes see his ruin; let him drink the wrath of Shaddai.
• Psalms 60:3O God, You have spurned us. You have broken out against us. You have been angry. Turn back to us!
• Psalms 75:8For God is the Judge: He lowers one and lifts up another.
• Jeremiah 25:16They will drink, and reel to and fro, and be like madmen, because of the sword that I will send among them.
• Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness and made me drink wormwood.
• Revelation 14:10he shall also drink the wine of God’s fury, poured full strength into the cup of His wrath. And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb.
• Revelation 16:6For they have poured out the blood of kedoshim and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink— they are deserving!”
• Revelation 18:3For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the fury of her immorality. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich off the power of her self-indulgence.”
• Isaiah 25:10For the hand of Adonai will rest on this mountain. Moab will be trampled under Him, as straw is trampled in a manure pile.
• Isaiah 26:5For He humbles those dwelling on high, leveling the lofty city, leveling it to the ground, bringing it down to the dust.
• Revelation 18:21Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying: “So shall Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, never to 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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• Mention
• Drunkenness
• Isaiah
• Obadiah, Book of
• Saviour

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