Rather, preterites, “I trod down ... made them drunk.” The same image occurs Isa 51:17, Isa 51:21-23; Psa 75:8; Jer 25:26, Jer 25:27.
will bring down ... strength to ... earth - rather, “I spilled their life-blood (the same Hebrew words as in Isa 63:3) on the earth” [Lowth and Septuagint].