Isaiah 63:2

Isaiah 63:2

Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

a. ASV: Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?

b. YLT: 'Wherefore is thy clothing red? And thy garments as treading in a wine fat?'

c. Classic Amplified: Why is Your apparel splashed with red, and Your garments like the one who treads in the winepress?

d. Septuagint: Wherefore are thy garments red, and thy raiment as [if fresh] from a trodden winepress?

e. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/ Writings: Why is there red on Your raiment, and [why are] Your garments like someone treading in a wine fat?

1. “Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel…”

a. Wherefore [Strong: 4069 madduwa` mad-doo'-ah or madduaa {mad-doo'-ah}; from 4100 and the passive participle of 3045; what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?:--how, wherefore, why.]

b. [art thou] red [Strong: 122 'adom aw-dome' from 119; rosy:--red, ruddy.]

c. [in thine] apparel [Strong: 3830  lᵉbûwsh, leb-oosh'; or לְבֻשׁ lᵉbush; from H3847; a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphemistically) a wife:—apparel, clothed with, clothing, garment, raiment, vestment, vesture.]

2. “...and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?”

a. [and thy] garments [Strong: 899  beged, behg'-ed; from H898; a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage:—apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, × very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.]

b. [like him that] treadeth [Strong: 1869 dârak, daw-rak'; a primitive root; to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending):—archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.]

c. [in the] winefat [Strong: 1660 gath, gath; probably from H5059 (in the sense of treading out grapes); a wine-press (or vat for holding the grapes in pressing them):—(wine-) press (fat).]

1). This passage (Isaiah 63:1-6), matches almost perfectly with other passages that refer to the return of Christ in judgment. 

a). Revelation 19:11-16 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written that no man knew, but he himself.

19:13 And he was clothed in a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called the Word of God.

19:14 And the armies which followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

b). Revelation 14:17-20 “And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

14:18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

14:20 And the winepress was troddened without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

c). Jeremiah 25:30-33 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

25:31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

25:32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

d). Isaiah 59:16-19 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the  sun. When the ememy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against.

e). Deuteronomy 32:41-43 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold of judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.