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Isaiah 51:18-23

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18 She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.
18 Among all the children she bore there was none to guide her; among all the children she reared there was none to take her by the hand.
19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?
19 These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you?— ruin and destruction, famine and sword— who can console you?
20 Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.
20 Your children have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the LORD, with the rebuke of your God.
21 So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:
21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.
22 This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:
22 This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who defends his people: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again.
23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, ‘Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.’ And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked on.”
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