God’s Vengeance on the Nations

A majestic figure approaches from Edom with crimson garments, and the question of His identity gives way to the answer that He is mighty to save and speaks in righteousness. The blood on His clothing is not from His own wounding but from trampling the nations alone in judgment, because the day of vengeance and year of redemption had arrived and no human helper could be found, so His own arm accomplished both wrath and deliverance.

W¹ho is this coming from Edom, ²Why are Your clothes red, ³“I have trodden the winepress alone, ⁴For the day of vengeance was in My heart, ⁵I looked, but there was no one to help; ⁶I trampled the nations in My anger;