Isaiah 51:17-23

Lexham English Bible

¹⁷ Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself!
    Stand up, Jerusalem, who have drunk from the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath;
you have drunk the goblet, the cup of staggering;
    you have drained it out.
¹⁸ There is no one who guides her among^[a] all the children she has borne,
    and there is no one who grasps her by the hand among^[b] all the children she raised.
¹⁹ Two things here have happened to you—who will show sympathy^[c] for you?—
    devastation and destruction, famine and sword—who will comfort you?
²⁰ Your children have fainted;
    they lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in^[d] a snare,
those who are full of the wrath of Yahweh,
    the rebuke of your God.
²¹ Therefore hear now this afflicted one
    and drunken one but^[e] not from wine.
²² Thus says your Lord, Yahweh,
    and your God pleads the cause of his people:
“Look! I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering.
    You shall not continue^[f] to drink the goblet, the cup of my wrath, any longer.
²³ And I will put it in the hand of your tormenters,
    who have said to you,^[g] ‘Bow down that^[h] we may pass^[i] over you!’
And you have made^[j] your back like the ground,
    and like the street for those who pass^[k] over you.”