The Meaning of Isaiah 63:4 Explained

Isaiah 63:4

KJV: For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

YLT: For the day of vengeance is in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath come.

Darby: For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed had come.

ASV: For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Isaiah 63:4?

MEANING: What does Isaiah 63:4 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Isaiah 63:4 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Isaiah 63:4?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

For the day  of vengeance  [is] in mine heart,  and the year  of my redeemed  is come. 

What does Isaiah 63:4 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The Warrior continued to explain that this treading judgment was in order that redemption might come. The day of vengeance had arrived, and He had finally punished evildoers (cf. Isaiah 61:2). His bloody victory was not due to a temper out of control but was part of the plan of God.
"The work of redemption was accomplished in chapter53 , but from Isaiah 56:1 onwards the people were called to wait for the promised salvation. The ensuing chapters reveal the need to be rescued from a stressful and hostile environment and from the plague of sin and failure ( Isaiah 57:1 ff.; Isaiah 58:1 to Isaiah 59:13). Thus, when the Anointed One acts as mighty to save (1) and when the "day of my redeemed" has come, the burden of the activity is the exaction of final vengeance on every foe." [1]

Context Summary

Isaiah 63:1-9 - The Mighty Savior
For long years there had been virulent hostility between Israel and Edom. It began when Esau and Jacob were lads. It broke out in bitterness when Edom denied Israel the right of passage, Numbers 20:20-21. When Babylon had triumphed over Jerusalem, Edom urged that her walls should be leveled to the ground, Psalms 137:7.
How great the change pictured here! The prophet stands at the division of the two countries, looking south, from the foothills of Judah across the sandy waste. In the distance he beholds the mighty Warrior coming up from Edom, His garments wet, not with His own blood, but with Edom's; henceforth to stand as sentinel between Edom and Israel, so that nevermore need Israel fear invasion.
If Edom stands for sins of passion or for the hatred of unscrupulous foes, see how safe and blessed you are. Jesus, the Mighty to save, stands between you and your besetting sins, between you and your fears, between you and the power of the adversary, Psalms 63:9. "Mention the lovingkindness of the Lord!" [source]

Chapter Summary: Isaiah 63

1  Christ shows who he is
2  What his victory over his enemies
7  And what his mercy toward his church
10  In his just wrath he remembers his free mercy
15  The church, in her prayer
17  And complaint, professes her faith

What do the individual words in Isaiah 63:4 mean?

For the day of vengeance [is] in My heart and the year of My redeemed has come
כִּ֛י י֥וֹם נָקָ֖ם בְּלִבִּ֑י וּשְׁנַ֥ת גְּאוּלַ֖י בָּֽאָה

י֥וֹם  the  day 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
נָקָ֖ם  of  vengeance 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: נָקָם  
Sense: vengeance.
בְּלִבִּ֑י  [is]  in  My  heart 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: לֵב 
Sense: inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding.
וּשְׁנַ֥ת  and  the  year 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
גְּאוּלַ֖י  of  My  redeemed 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: גְּאוּלִים 
Sense: to redeem, act as kinsman-redeemer, avenge, revenge, ransom, do the part of a kinsman.
בָּֽאָה  has  come 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.

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