¹⁷ Awake, awake!
    Stand up, Jerusalem,
    you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath.
You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,
    and drained it.
¹⁸ There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth;
    and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.
¹⁹ These two things have happened to you—
    who will grieve with you?—
desolation and destruction,
    and famine and the sword.
    How can I comfort you?
²⁰ Your sons have fainted.
    They lie at the head of all the streets,
    like an antelope in a net.
They are full of Yahweh’s wrath,
    the rebuke of your God.

²¹ Therefore now hear this, you afflicted,
    and drunken, but not with wine:
²² Your Lord Yahweh,
    your God who pleads the cause of his people, says,
“Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering,
    even the bowl of the cup of my wrath.
    You will not drink it any more.
²³ I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
    who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’
    and you have laid your back as the ground,
    like a street to those who walk over.”