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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.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:18 Or “from”
  2. Isaiah 51:18 Or “from”
  3. Isaiah 51:19 Literally “wander”
  4. Isaiah 51:20 Or “of”
  5. Isaiah 51:21 Or “and”
  6. Isaiah 51:22 Literally “do again”
  7. Isaiah 51:23 Literally “your inner self”
  8. Isaiah 51:23 Or “and”
  9. Isaiah 51:23 Or “stride”
  10. Isaiah 51:23 Literally “placed”
  11. Isaiah 51:23 Or “stride”

17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath brought up. 19 These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee? 20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.

21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 22 Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again: 23 and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

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