Isaiah 51:17–23

¹⁷Rouse yourself, rouse yourself!

Stand up, O Jerusalem,

you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord

the cup of his wrath,

who have drunk to the dregs

the cup of staggering.^*

¹⁸There is no one to guide her

among all the children she has borne;

there is no one to take her by the hand

among all the children she has brought up.^*

¹⁹These two things have befallen you

—who will grieve with you?—

devastation and destruction, famine and sword.

Who will comfort you?^e*

²⁰Your children have fainted;

they lie at the head of every street

like an antelope in a net;

they are full of the wrath of the Lord,

the rebuke of your God.^*

²¹Therefore hear this, you who are wounded,^f

who are drunk but not with wine:^*

²²Thus says your Sovereign, the Lord,

your God who pleads the cause of his people:

See, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering;

you shall drink no more

from the cup of my wrath.^*

²³And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,

who have said to you,

“Bow down, that we may walk on you,”

and you have made your back like the ground

and like the street for them to walk on.^*