Isaiah 51:20
Thy children have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an oryx in a net: they are full of the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:5the hart, and the gazelle, and the stag, and the wild goat, and the dishon and the oryx, and the wild sheep.
Isaiah 5:25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand against them and hath smitten them; and the mountains trembled, and their carcases are become as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:19Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burned up, and the people is as fuel for fire: a man spareth not his brother;
Isaiah 40:30Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;
Isaiah 51:17Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment:
Jeremiah 14:16and the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword; and there shall be none to bury them, them, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters; and I will pour their wickedness upon them.
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 →