Isaiah 51:16-18

The Voice

¹⁶    I have given you My words to speak and protected you with the shadow of My hand.
        I am the One who pulled the skies tight and made the earth rock solid.
    And I am the same who said to Zion, “You are indeed Mine!”

¹⁷    Get up. Get up, and get moving! Stand up, Jerusalem,
        you who have experienced firsthand the punishing anger of God.
    You have drunk that terrible cup to the last gritty drop,
        and it left you reeling, drunk on distress.
¹⁸    Ah, poor Jerusalem! No one comes to guide her along.
        Of all her people, all the ones whom the city nurtured and raised to adulthood,
    None take her hand now in her stupor of pain.