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 bowl of staggering.

¹⁸There is none to guide her

among all the sons she has borne;

there is none to take her by the hand

among all the sons she has brought up.

¹⁹These two things have befallen you—

who will condole with you?—

devastation and destruction, famine and sword;

who will comfort you?

²⁰Your sons 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 afflicted,

who are drunk, but not with wine:

²²Thus says your Lord, the Lord,

your God who pleads the cause of his people:

“Behold, I have taken from your hand

the cup of staggering;

the bowl of my wrath

you shall drink no more;

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

who have said to you,

‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;

and you have made your back like the ground

and like the street for them to pass over.”