Isaiah 51:19–23
19These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?↗
20Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the LORD’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.↗
21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:↗
22Your Lord GOD, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.↗
23I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”↗
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