Isaiah 51:17–23

¹⁷Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself!

Stand up, Jerusalem, who have drunk from the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath;

you have drunk the goblet, the cup of staggering;

you have drained it out.

¹⁸There is no one who guides her among^u all the children she has borne,

and there is no one who grasps her by the hand among^v all the children she raised.

¹⁹Two things here have happened to you—who will show sympathy^w for you?—

devastation and destruction, famine and sword—who will comfort you?

²⁰Your children have fainted;

they lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in^x a snare,

those who are full of the wrath of Yahweh,

the rebuke of your God.

²¹Therefore hear now this afflicted one

and drunken one but^y not from wine.

²²Thus says your Lord, Yahweh,

and your God pleads the cause of his people:

“Look! I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering.

You shall not continue^z to drink the goblet, the cup of my wrath, any longer.

²³And I will put it in the hand of your tormenters,

who have said to you,^a ‘Bow down that^b we may pass^c over you!’

And you have made^d your back like the ground,

and like the street for those who pass^e over you.”