9. Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the Lord!Awake, as in the days of old,the generations of ancient times.Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces,who pierced the monster?
10. Isn’t it you who dried up the sea,the waters of the great deep;who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
11. Those ransomed by the Lord will return,and come with singing to Zion;and everlasting joy shall be on their heads.They will obtain gladness and joy.Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
12. “I, even I, am he who comforts you.Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
13. Have you forgotten the Lord your Maker,who stretched out the heavens,and laid the foundations of the earth?Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor,when he prepares to destroy?Where is the fury of the oppressor?
14. The captive exile will speedily be freed;and he will not die and go down into the pit,and his bread will not fail.
15. For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea,so that its waves roar:the Lord of Hosts is his name.
16. I have put my words in your mouth,and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,that I may plant the heavens,and lay the foundations of the earth,and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
17. Awake, awake!Stand up, Jerusalem,you who have drunk from the Lord’s hand the cup of his wrath.You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering,and drained it.
18. There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth;and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.
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: