Isaiah 63:3

Hebrew Bible

2 Why are your clothes red? Why do you look like someone who has stomped on grapes in a vat? 3 “I have stomped grapes in the wine press all by myself; no one from the nations joined me. I stomped on them in my anger; I trampled them down in my rage. Their juice splashed on my garments and stained all my clothes. 4 For I looked forward to the day of vengeance, and then payback time arrived.

LXX Isaiah 63:3

Septuagint

2 “Why are your garments red, and your clothes as if from a trodden wine press?” 3 “I am full of a trampled wine press, and of the nations no man is with me, and I trampled them in wrath and crushed them like earth and brought down their blood to the earth. 4 For a day of retribution has come upon them, and a year of ransom is here.

 Notes and References
"... Cruelty in God ... In LXX Isaiah 63:3, the notion of God’s appearance in clothes stained red with blood is avoided; further, God does not save himself but others ..."

Meiser, Martin The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays (pp. 21-22) Mohr Siebeck, 2022

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