Isaiah 63:1-6

THE VINTAGE OF JUDGMENT, Isaiah 63:1-6.

In preceding chapters, (60-62,) the glow of hope was paramount, and the vision of the coming glory was so full with the prophet, (with occasional exceptions,) that in a measure he overlooked the fact of still surviving, though weakening, hostile powers gnashing spite on Zion, by reason of conscious decadence of their own might and dominion. Reference is made to these in Isaiah 59:18, also in Isaiah 60:12. Here, in Isaiah 63:1-6, the reference to them is distinctly pronounced. Edom is here, as in chap. 34, (as it also is in Psalms 137:7,) taken to represent a power ever malignant against Israel and against Israel’s religion.