²² Thus says your Sovereign, the Lord,
    your God who pleads the cause of his people:
See, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering;
you shall drink no more
    from the cup of my wrath.^(A)
23 And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
    who have said to you,
    “Bow down, that we may walk on you,”
and you have made your back like the ground
    and like the street for them to walk on.^(B)

³³ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor
    at the time when it is trodden;
yet a little while
    and the time of her harvest will come.^(A)

⁹ saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”
    to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”
They shall feed along the ways;
    on all the bare heights^[a] shall be their pasture;^(A)

²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoners,
    to set free those who were doomed to die,^(A)

³³ For the Lord hears the needy
    and does not despise his own who are in bonds.^(A)

¹⁷ who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    who would not let his prisoners go home?”^(A)