Isaiah 51:17-23

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ Awake, awake!
    Rise up, O Jerusalem!
You have drunk from the Lord’s hand
    the cup of his wrath;
and have drained to the dregs
    the goblet that causes men to become inebriated.
¹⁸ Of all the sons you have brought forth,
    there is no one to guide you;
of all the sons you have reared,
    there is no one to take you by the hand.
¹⁹ Who is there to grieve with you
    about the twofold disaster you have suffered?
Devastation and destruction, famine and sword:
    who can comfort you?
²⁰ Your children are lying helpless
    at the corner of every street
    like antelopes trapped in a net.
They are filled with the wrath of the Lord,
    with the rebuke of your God.
²¹ Therefore, hear this, you who are afflicted,
    you who are drunk although not with wine.
²² Thus says your sovereign Lord,
    your God who defends his people:
I have taken from your hand
    the cup of inebriation;
    you will never again drink
    from the bowl of my wrath.
²³ I will hand it over to your tormentors,
    those who said to you,
“Lie on the ground
    so that we may walk over you.”
And you flattened your back
    like ground beneath their feet,
    like a road for them to walk on.^[a]