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Yeshayahu 63

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Module 16: The Winepress of Vengeance and the Remembrance of Ancient Mercies

Who is this that cometh from Adum, with dyed garments from Butzrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
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Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
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I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
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The Year of the Redeemed

For the day of vengeance (naqam) is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed (geulim) is come.
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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.
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And I will tread down the peoples in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
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The Remembrance of the Chesed of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄

I will mention the lovingkindnesses (chasday) of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and the praises of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, according to all that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Yashar'el, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies (rachamim), and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
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For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
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The Malakh of His Presence

In all their affliction (tzarah) he was afflicted, and the malakh of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
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But they rebelled, and vexed his Ruach HaQodesh: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
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The Recall of the Days of Mushah

Then he remembered the days of old, Mushah, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his Ruach HaQodesh within him?
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That led them by the right hand of Mushah with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
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That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
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As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Ruach of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
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The Prayer for Divine Intervention

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy qodesh and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
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Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Yashar'el acknowledge us not: thou, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, art our father, our redeemer (goel); thy name is from everlasting.
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O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
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The people of thy holiness (qodesh) have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
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We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.