“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.”
In wrath YHWH trampled peoples, made them drunk with divine wrath, and poured out their blood on earth, completing the violent retribution initiated in 63:3. The image of making enemies drunk with wrath suggests intoxication with divine anger: they are overwhelmed and cannot resist. The pouring out of blood onto earth ritualizes judgment, establishing cosmic significance. The verse's accumulation of violent imagery reaches crescendo: divine wrath is total, inescapable, and complete. The passage from 63:1-6 establishes YHWH's role as divine warrior executing judgment against enemies.
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