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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]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:23 Conquerors signified their victory by putting their foot on the neck of the conquered.