Isaiah 51:17-23 - Wake Up, Jerusalem

17 "Awake, Awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the LORD's hand from the cup that is his anger. You have drunk to the dregs the cup that makes you stagger, and have drained it. 18 There is no one to guide you out of all the children she bore, no one to take her by the hand out of all the children she brought up. 19 "These twin things have come upon you (who can feel sorry for you?): ruin and destruction, famine and the sword who can console you? 20 Your children have fainted. They lie at the head of every street, like antelope caught in a trap, filled with the anger of the LORD and the rebuke of your God.

21 Now listen to this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine: 22 This is what your Lord, the LORD, says, your God, who defends his people's cause: "See, I have taken from your hand the cup that made you stagger. And you will never again drink to the dregs the cup that is my anger. 23 But I will put it into the hands of those who tormented and oppressed you, those who said to you, "Lie down, so we can step over you,' so that you had to make your back like the ground, and like a street for them to walk over."


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