Chapter 63.
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.
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.
I will mention the lovingkindness of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness
toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies,
and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie.
So he was their saviour.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel 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.
But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit.
Therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses 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 Holy Spirit within him, that led them by the right
hand of Moses, with his glorious arm dividing the water before them,
to make himself an everlasting name, that led them through the deep,
as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest.
So didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness, 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?
Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us,
and Israel acknowledge us not.
Thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer.
Thy name is from everlasting.
O Lord, 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.
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while.
Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
We are thine.
Thou never bearest rule over them.
They were not called by thy name.
Thou art our Father,