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16 I put my words in your mouth
    and hid you in the shadow of my hand,
    stretching out[a] the heavens, founding the earth,
    and saying to Zion, “You are my people.”

Wake yourself, Jerusalem

17 Wake yourself, wake yourself!
    Rise up, Jerusalem,
    who drank the cup of wrath from the Lord’s hand.
    You drank; you drained the goblet of reeling.
18     There’s no one to guide her among all the children she bore;
    there’s no one to take her by the hand among all the children she raised.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:16 Or planting

16 I have put my words in your mouth(A)
    and covered you with the shadow of my hand(B)
I who set the heavens in place,
    who laid the foundations of the earth,(C)
    and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.(D)’”

The Cup of the Lord’s Wrath

17 Awake, awake!(E)
    Rise up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
    the cup(F) of his wrath,(G)
you who have drained to its dregs(H)
    the goblet that makes people stagger.(I)
18 Among all the children(J) she bore
    there was none to guide her;(K)
among all the children she reared
    there was none to take her by the hand.(L)

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