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Isaiah 63

Isa. 63:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have trodden
darak (Hebrew #1869)
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Pronounce: daw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
the winepress
puwrah (Hebrew #6333)
a wine-press (as crushing the grapes)
KJV usage: winepress.
Pronounce: poo-raw'
Origin: from 6331
alone; and of the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
there was none
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
with me: for I will tread
darak (Hebrew #1869)
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Pronounce: daw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
them in mine anger
'aph (Hebrew #639)
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
KJV usage: anger(-gry), + before, countenance, face, + forebearing, forehead, + (long-)suffering, nose, nostril, snout, X worthy, wrath.
Pronounce: af
Origin: from 599
, and trample
ramac (Hebrew #7429)
to tread upon (as a potter, in walking or abusively)
KJV usage: oppressor, stamp upon, trample (under feet), tread (down, upon).
Pronounce: raw-mas'
Origin: a primitive root
them in my fury
chemah (Hebrew #2534)
from 3179; heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
KJV usage: anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(- ful). See 2529.
Pronounce: khay-maw'
Origin: or (Dan. 11:44) chemaC {khay-maw'}
; and their blood
Netsach (Hebrew #5332)
juice of the grape (as blood red)
KJV usage: blood, strength.
Pronounce: nay'-tsakh
Origin: probably identical with 5331, through the idea of brilliancy of color
shall be sprinkled
nazah (Hebrew #5137)
to spirt, i.e. besprinkle (especially in expiation)
KJV usage: sprinkle.
Pronounce: naw-zaw'
Origin: a primitive root
upon my garments
beged (Hebrew #899)
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
KJV usage: apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, X very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
Pronounce: behg'-ed
Origin: from 898
, and I will stain
ga'al (Hebrew #1351)
to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
KJV usage: defile, pollute, stain.
Pronounce: gaw-al'
Origin: a primitive root, (rather identified with 1350, through the idea of freeing, i.e. repudiating)
all my raiment
malbuwsh (Hebrew #4403)
from 3847; a garment, or (collectively) clothing
KJV usage: apparel, raiment, vestment.
Pronounce: mal-boosh'
Origin: or malbush {mal-boosh'}
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Blood,
Garments,
Sprinkling,
Wine-Press; Wine-Fat

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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trodden.
Isa. 25:10• 10For in this mountain shall the hand of Jehovah rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is trodden down in the dunghill; (Isa. 25:10)
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Lam. 1:15• 15The Lord hath cast down all my mighty men in the midst of me; he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord hath trodden as a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah. (Lam. 1:15)
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Mal. 4:3• 3And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I prepare, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 4:3)
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Rev. 14:19‑20• 19And the angel put his sickle to the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast the bunches into the great wine-press of the fury of God;
 20and the wine-press was trodden without the city, and blood went out of the wine-press to the bits of the horses for a thousand six hundred stadia. (Rev. 14:19‑20)
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Rev. 19:13‑15• 13and he is clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God.
 14And the armies which are in the heaven followed him upon white horses, clad in white, pure, fine linen.
 15And out of his mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword, that with it he might smite the nations; and he shall shepherd them with an iron rod; and he treads the wine-press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. (Rev. 19:13‑15)
and of the people.The very remarkable passage contained in the first six verses of this chapter seems in a manner detached from the rest, and to stand by itself; containing a prophetical representation of the victories of the Messiah over the enemies of his church, here designated by the names of Edom and Bozrah.
Though, as Bp. Lowth observes, this prophecy must have its accomplishment, there is no necessity for supposing that it has been already accomplished.
There are prophecies which intimate a great slaughter of the enemies of God and his people, which remain to be fulfilled:
those in Eze ch. 38, and Re ch. 20 are called Gog and Magog.
This prophecy of Isaiah may possibly refer to the same, or the like event.and trample.
Isa. 63:6• 6And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury; and their blood have I brought down to the earth. (Isa. 63:6)
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Isa. 34:2‑5• 2For the wrath of Jehovah is against all the nations, and his fury against all their armies: he hath devoted them to destruction, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
 3And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
 4And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered fruit from the fig-tree.
 5For my sword is bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to judgment. (Isa. 34:2‑5)
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2 Kings 9:33• 33And he said, Throw her down! And they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses; and he trampled on her. (2 Kings 9:33)
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Ezek. 38:18‑22• 18And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, that my fury shall come up in my face;
 19for in my jealousy, in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
 20so that the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things which creep upon the earth, and all mankind that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence; and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
 21And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
 22And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, overflowing rain and great hailstones, fire and brimstone. (Ezek. 38:18‑22)
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Mic. 7:10• 10And mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall behold her; now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets. (Mic. 7:10)
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Zech. 10:5• 5And they shall be as mighty men, treading down the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, for Jehovah is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame. (Zech. 10:5)
• The harvest is discriminating judgment, there are tares and wheat. The winepress is the destructive judgment of vengeance. In the former there will be two in one bed, one taken and another left, but the winepress is simple wrath, as Isaiah 63. So in Revelation 14. (“John 7” by J.N. Darby)
• The figure of treading “the winepress” is employed in verse 3, and the same figure is used in the closing verses of Revelation 14. It evidently indicates judgment of a wholesale and unsparing kind. (“Isaiah 63” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my furyd; and their bloode is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all mine apparel.

JND Translation Notes

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d
As "hot displeasure," Ps. 38.1.
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Lit. "juice," alluding to the winepress.