16. And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavensand laying the foundations of the earth,and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
17. Wake yourself, wake yourself,stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lordthe cup of his wrath,who have drunk to the dregsthe bowl, the cup of staggering.
18. There is none to guide heramong all the sons she has borne;there is none to take her by the handamong all the sons she has brought up.
19. These two things have happened to you—who will console you?—devastation and destruction, famine and sword;who will comfort you?
20. Your sons have fainted;they lie at the head of every streetlike an antelope in a net;they are full of the wrath of the Lord,the rebuke of your God.
21. Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted,who are drunk, but not with wine:
22. Thus says your Lord, the Lord,your God who pleads the cause of his people:“Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering;the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
23. and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you,‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;and you have made your back like the groundand like the street for them to pass over.”