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Isaiah 63:6

Isaiah 63:6
And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And I will tread down the people in mine anger,.... See Gill on Isa 63:3,

and make them drunk in my fury; or with it (s) the wrath of God is signified by a cup, which he gives wicked men to drink,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And I will tread them down - Or rather, ‘I did tread them down.’ The allusion here is to a warrior who tramples on his foes and treads them in the dust (see the notes at Isa 25:10). And made them…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

And make them drunk in my fury "And I crushed them in mine indignation" - For ואשכרם vaashkerem, and I made them drunken, twenty-seven MSS., (three ancient), twelve of De Rossi's, and the old edition…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 63:1-6

It is a glorious victory that is here enquired into first and then accounted for. 1. It is a victory obtained by the providence of God over the enemies of Israel; over the Babylonians (say some), whom…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Repetition of the thought of Isa 63:63.

And I will tread down the people R.V. rightly, And I trod down the peoples, though the verb differs from either of those in Isa 63:63. Past tenses are to be…