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20 Your children have become weak,
    and they lie on the ground at the side of every street.
They are like deer that a trap has caught.
The anger of the Lord your God has made them helpless.
    He has warned them loudly.
21 So listen to this, you people who are in trouble.
You walk like drunk people,
    but wine has not done that to you.

22 The Lord God who is your Lord stands beside his people. He says,

‘Look! Now I have taken the cup of my punishment out of your hand.
You will no longer have to drink the strong wine of my anger
    that makes you drunk.

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