2. Why are your clothes so red,as if you have been treading out grapes?
3. “I have been treading the winepress alone;no one was there to help me.In my anger I have trampled my enemiesas if they were grapes.In my fury I have trampled my foes.Their blood has stained my clothes.
4. For the time has come for me to avenge my people,to ransom them from their oppressors.
5. I was amazed to see that no one intervenedto help the oppressed.So I myself stepped in to save them with my strong arm,and my wrath sustained me.
6. I crushed the nations in my angerand made them stagger and fall to the ground,spilling their blood upon the earth.”
7. I 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.
8. He said, “They are my very own people.Surely they will not betray me again.”And he became their Savior.