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19 Your misfortunes are double;
    who is there to grieve with you?
Desolation and destruction, famine and sword!
    Who is there to comfort you?
20 Your children lie helpless
    at every street corner
    like antelopes in a net.
They are filled with the wrath of the Lord,
    the rebuke of your God.

21 But now, hear this, afflicted one,
    drunk, but not with wine,(A)

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19 These double calamities(A) have come upon you—
    who can comfort you?(B)
ruin and destruction,(C) famine(D) and sword(E)
    who can[a] console you?
20 Your children have fainted;
    they lie at every street corner,(F)
    like antelope caught in a net.(G)
They are filled with the wrath(H) of the Lord,
    with the rebuke(I) of your God.

21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted(J) one,
    made drunk,(K) but not with wine.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:19 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text / how can I