Isa 51:17-23 | NETfull | STEP | Wake up! Wake up! Get up, O Jerusalem! You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you, which was full of his anger! You drained dry the goblet full of intoxicating wine.

Isaiah 51:17-23

17 Wake up! Wake up!
Get up, O Jerusalem!
You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you,
which was full of his anger! ^{▼▼ Heb “[you] who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his anger.”}
You drained dry
the goblet full of intoxicating wine. ^{▼▼ Heb “the goblet, the cup [that causes] staggering, you drank, you drained.”}
18 There was no one to lead her
among all the children she bore;
there was no one to take her by the hand
among all the children she raised.
19 These double disasters confronted you.
But who feels sorry for you?
Destruction and devastation,
famine and sword.
But who consoles you? ^{▼▼ The Hebrew text has אֲנַחֲמֵךְ (’anakhamekh), a first person form, but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly יִנַחֲמֵךְ (yinakhamekh), a third person form.}
20 Your children faint;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a snare.
They are left in a stupor by the Lord’s anger,
by the battle cry of your God. ^{▼▼ Heb “those who are full of the anger of the Lord, the shout [or “rebuke”] of your God.”}
21 So listen to this, oppressed one,
who is drunk, but not from wine!
22 This is what your sovereign master, ^{▼▼ The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).} the Lord your God, says:
“Look, I have removed from your hand
the cup of intoxicating wine, ^{▼▼ Heb “the cup of [= that causes] staggering” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV); NASB “the cup of reeling.”}
the goblet full of my anger. ^{▼▼ Heb “the goblet of the cup of my anger.”}
You will no longer have to drink it.
23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors ^{▼▼ That is, to make them drink it.}
who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’
You made your back like the ground,
and like the street for those who walked over you.”