Isaiah 51:22-23

Expanded Bible

²² Your God will ·defend [plead the case of] his people.
    This is what the Lord your God says:
“·The punishment I gave you is like a cup of wine.
    You drank it and could not walk straight.
But I am taking that cup of my anger away from you, [^LLook/^TBehold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering,
the dregs of the cup of my wrath]
    and you will never ·be punished by my anger [^Ldrink from it] again.
²³ I will now give that cup of punishment to ·those who gave you pain [your tormentors; Jer. 25:17, 26, 28],
who told you,
    ‘Bow down so we can walk over you.’
·They [^LYou] made your back like dirt for them to walk on;
    you were like a street for them to travel on.”