“Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?”
The figure responds that he has been treading the wine press alone, with no one from the nations joining him, indicating solo divine action in judgment. The blood on garments represents the juice of grapes trodden in divine wrath. The solitude—no one assisting—emphasizes exclusive divine agency in judgment. The rhetorical question establishes that this figure must explain its bloodied appearance: it is YHWH returning from executing divine vengeance. The wine-press imagery, violent and unrelenting, depicts judgment as inevitable and complete.
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