19. These two things have happened to you—who will grieve with you?—desolation and destruction,and famine and the sword.How can I comfort you?
20. Your sons have fainted.They lie at the head of all the streets,like an antelope in a net.They are full of the the Lord’s wrath,the rebuke of your God.
21. Therefore now hear this, you afflicted,and drunken, but not with wine:
22. Thus says your Lord GOD,your God who pleads the cause of his people,“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:
23. and I 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.”