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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?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:18 Or “from”
  2. Isaiah 51:18 Or “from”
  3. Isaiah 51:19 Literally “wander”