47. Nineteen. In the following chapter (63), the combat of the Lord with the hells and their subjugation is treated of, where we read these words: Who is this that cometh from Edom, with sprinkled garments from Bozra? this that is honorable in His apparel marching in the multitude of His strength. I that speak in justice, great to save. Wherefore art Thou red as to Thy garments and Thy garments like him that treadeth in the winepress? I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there was no man with Me: therefore I trod them in Mine anger and trampled them in My wrath, whence their victory is sprinkled upon My garments and I have stained all My raiment. For the day of vengeance is in Mine heart and the year of My redeemed is come. I had looked round, but there was none to help, and I was astonished, but there has none to uphold: therefore Mine own arm brought salvation unto Me. And I trod down the peoples in Mine anger and I made their victory to descend upon the earth. He said, surely they are My people, so He became their Savior. In all their straitness, there was straitness for Him, and the angel of His faces freed them. On account of His love and His pity He redeemed them; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old (Isa. 63:1-9). The supplication of the faithful to the Lord, that then they might be liberated from the hells (verses 15-19), where we read these words: Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of Thy holiness and Thy beauty: where are Thy zeal and Thy powers? the yearning of Thy bowels and Thy compassions are restrained towards me. For Thou art our Father; Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: Thou Jehovah art our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is Thy name; why wilt Thou make us to err from Thy ways, and harden our heart from Thy fear? Return for Thy servants' sake. They almost possessed the people of Thy holiness: our adversaries have trampled Thy sanctuary. O that Thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might flow down at Thy presence (Isa. 63:15-19). The lamentation of the faithful that the church was laid waste, and supplication that He would bring help (Isa. 64:1-11, where are several things which can be taken therefrom). The reply of the Lord to their supplication (Isa. 65), where first the evil who have not worshiped God but have gone away to the worship of other gods, are treated of (verses 1-15), and afterwards the restoration of the New Church, which is meant by Jerusalem, and its happy state (verses 17-25), where are these words: Behold I create new heavens and a new earth, so that the former shall not be remembered. But be glad and exult in that which I create, behold I will create Jerusalem an exultation and her people a gladness. They shall not labor in vain nor bring forth in terror, for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. They shall not do evil, nor destroy in all the mountain of holiness (Isa. 65:17-25).