Isaiah 51:17–23

^51:17Wake up! Wake up!

Get up, O Jerusalem!

You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you,

which was full of his anger!⁴⁷

You drained dry

the goblet full of intoxicating wine.⁴⁸

^51:18There was no one to lead her

among all the children she bore;

there was no one to take her by the hand

among all the children she raised.

^51:19These double disasters confronted you.

But who feels sorry for you?

Destruction and devastation,

famine and sword.

But who consoles you?⁴⁹

^51:20Your children faint;

they lie at the head of every street

like an antelope in a snare.

They are left in a stupor by the Lord’s anger,

by the battle cry of your God.⁵⁰

^51:21So listen to this, oppressed one,

who is drunk, but not from wine!

^51:22This is what your sovereign master,⁵¹ the Lord your God, says:

“Look, I have removed from your hand

the cup of intoxicating wine,⁵²

the goblet full of my anger.⁵³

You will no longer have to drink it.

^51:23I will put it into the hand of your tormentors⁵⁴

who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’

You made your back like the ground,

and like the street for those who walked over you.”