For I planned the day of vengeance,(A)
and the year of my redemption[a] came.

I looked, but there was no one to help,(B)
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(C)
and poured out their blood on the ground.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 63:4 Or blood retribution

For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

And 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.

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