Isaiah 63:10-19 ▼

10 But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy and he fought against them.

11 Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Just as when he brought up out of the sea the shepherd of his flock, and as he put his holy Spirit within Moses,

12 Who led them by his right hand and by his glorious arm, dividing the waters before them and making for them an everlasting name

13 And leading them through the deep, as a horse is led in the wilderness, and they stumbled not,

14 And like cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD leading them; so didst thou lead thy people and make for thyself a glorious name.

15 Look down from heaven and behold from thy holy and glorious habitation. Where is thy zeal and thy strength? Turn thy tender mercies and compassion toward us. Are they restrained?

16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham knew us not and Israel did not acknowledge us; thou, O LORD, art our Father, and our Saviour; thy name is from everlasting.

17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy way and hardened our heart so as not to reverence thee? Return, for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thy heritage.

18 The people of thy holiness have possessed the land but a little while; our oppressors have trodden down thy sanctuary.

19 We are thine from of old before thou didst rule over them; they were not called by thy name.