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19 These two calamities have fallen on you:
    desolation and destruction, famine and war.
And who is left to sympathize with you?
    Who is left to comfort you?[a]
20 For your children have fainted and lie in the streets,
    helpless as antelopes caught in a net.
The Lord has poured out his fury;
    God has rebuked them.

21 But now listen to this, you afflicted ones
    who sit in a drunken stupor,
    though not from drinking wine.

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  1. 51:19 As in Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek, Latin, and Syriac versions; Masoretic Text reads How can I comfort you?

19 These double calamities(A) have come upon you—
    who can comfort you?(B)
ruin and destruction,(C) famine(D) and sword(E)
    who can[a] console you?
20 Your children have fainted;
    they lie at every street corner,(F)
    like antelope caught in a net.(G)
They are filled with the wrath(H) of the Lord,
    with the rebuke(I) of your God.

21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted(J) one,
    made drunk,(K) but not with wine.

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  1. Isaiah 51:19 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text / how can I