Isaiah 51:17-23

Common English Bible

Wake yourself, Jerusalem

¹⁷Wake yourself, wake yourself!
    Rise up, Jerusalem,
    who drank the cup of wrath from the Lord’s hand.
    You drank; you drained the goblet of reeling.
¹⁸    There’s no one to guide her among all the children she bore;
    there’s no one to take her by the hand among all the children she raised.
¹⁹These two things have happened to you—
    Who will be sorry for you?^[a]—
        destruction and devastation,
        famine and sword—
    who will comfort you?^[b]
²⁰Your children passed out;
    they lay at the head of every street like antelope in a net,
    filled with the Lord’s wrath,
    with the rebuke of your God.

²¹Therefore, hear this, suffering one,
    who is drunk, but not from wine.
²²The Lord, your Lord and your God,
    who contends for his people, says:
    Look, I have taken the cup of reeling,
    the goblet of my wrath, from your hand.
    You will no longer drink from it.
²³I will put it in the hand of your tormentors,
    who said to you,
    “Lie down so that we can walk on you.
    Make your back like the ground,
    like a street for those walking on it.”