Isaiah 63:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.

And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury - rather, preterites, 'I trod down ... made them drunk.' The same image occurs, Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:21-23; Psalms 75:8; Jeremiah 25:26-27.

And I will bring down their strength to the earth - rather, 'I spilled their life-blood (the same Hebrew word as in Isaiah 63:3) on the earth, (Lowth, the Arabic, and Septuagint) Hebrew, nitschaam (H5332). The Syriac, Vulgate, and Chaldaic translate as the English version.

Isaiah 63:6

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.