Isaiah 51:17-23

New International Version

The Cup of the Lord’s Wrath

¹⁷Awake, awake!^(A)
    Rise up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
    the cup^(B) of his wrath,^(C)
you who have drained to its dregs^(D)
    the goblet that makes people stagger.^(E)
¹⁸Among all the children^(F) she bore
    there was none to guide her;^(G)
among all the children she reared
    there was none to take her by the hand.^(H)
¹⁹These double calamities^(I) have come upon you—
    who can comfort you?^(J)—
ruin and destruction,^(K) famine^(L) and sword^(M)—
    who can^[a] console you?
²⁰Your children have fainted;
    they lie at every street corner,^(N)
    like antelope caught in a net.^(O)
They are filled with the wrath^(P) of the Lord,
    with the rebuke^(Q) of your God.

²¹Therefore hear this, you afflicted^(R) one,
    made drunk,^(S) but not with wine.
²²This is what your Sovereign Lord says,
    your God, who defends^(T) his people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
    the cup^(U) that made you stagger;
from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,
    you will never drink again.
²³I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,^(V)
    who said to you,
    ‘Fall prostrate^(W) that we may walk^(X) on you.’
And you made your back like the ground,
    like a street to be walked on.”^(Y)

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Footnotes

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

Jeremiah 25:15-29

New International Version

The Cup of God’s Wrath

¹⁵This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup^(A) filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send^(B) you drink it. ¹⁶When they drink^(C) it, they will stagger^(D) and go mad^(E) because of the sword^(F) I will send among them.”

¹⁷So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent^(G) me drink it: ¹⁸Jerusalem^(H) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin^(I) and an object of horror and scorn,^(J) a curse^[a]^(K)—as they are today;^(L) ¹⁹Pharaoh king^(M) of Egypt,^(N) his attendants, his officials and all his people, ²⁰and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz;^(O) all the kings of the Philistines^(P) (those of Ashkelon,^(Q) Gaza,^(R) Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod); ²¹Edom,^(S) Moab^(T) and Ammon;^(U) ²²all the kings of Tyre^(V) and Sidon;^(W) the kings of the coastlands^(X) across the sea; ²³Dedan,^(Y) Tema,^(Z) Buz^(AA) and all who are in distant places^[b];^(AB) ²⁴all the kings of Arabia^(AC) and all the kings of the foreign people^(AD) who live in the wilderness; ²⁵all the kings of Zimri,^(AE) Elam^(AF) and Media;^(AG) ²⁶and all the kings of the north,^(AH) near and far, one after the other—all the kingdoms^(AI) on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak^[c]^(AJ) will drink it too.

²⁷“Then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk^(AK) and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword^(AL) I will send among you.’ ²⁸But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink^(AM), tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: You must drink it! ²⁹See, I am beginning to bring disaster^(AN) on the city that bears my Name,^(AO) and will you indeed go unpunished?^(AP) You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword^(AQ) on all^(AR) who live on the earth,^(AS) declares the Lord Almighty.’

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 25:18 That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed
Jeremiah 25:23 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads
Jeremiah 25:26 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.