Isaiah 51:21

So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

In Context

20Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

22This 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:

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Cross References

Isaiah 51:17Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

Lamentations 3:15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 51:18-23

Jerusalem's Affliction. ( b. c. 706.) 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. 19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom… Read the whole commentary →

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