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Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious, marching in the greatness of His strength? To this their Deliverer answers,
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I that _speak in righteousness_, mighty to save. The significance of this is at once apparent to the reader who calls to mind the various passages mentioned above in reference to the voice of the Lord.
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I that speak in righteousness --this is the voice uttered before His army (Joel 2. 10),
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(Rev. 19. 15); the
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by which the Man of Sin is crushed (2 Thess. 2. 8), and the
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Wherefore art Thou red in Thine apparel, and Thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? The language is doubtless symbolic. Messiah explains in reply how the threatening foes have been crushed:
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I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with Me: yea, I trod them in Mine anger, and trampled them in My fury; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have stained all My raiment. For the day of vengeance was 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 trod down the peoples in Mine anger, and made them drunk in My fury, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth (vv. 3-6). The words of a previous prophecy express the joyful recognition of the delivered nation:
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And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation
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to worship the Lord in view of the judgment He is just about to execute for the deliverance of His people the Jews, their land and their city. (2) The second part, verses 3-9, describes the actual judgment by means of