Isaiah 51:21

So please listen to this, you poor people, sitting there in a drunken state, but not from drinking wine.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

20Your children have collapsed, lying in every street like antelopes caught in a trap. They experienced the full anger of the Lord, the condemnation of your God.

22This is what your Lord God says, your God, who defends his people's cause: Look! I have taken away from you the cup that made you stagger around. You will never again have to drink from that cup, the cup of my anger.

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Cross References

Isaiah 51:17Wake up, wake up! Get up, Jerusalem! You have drunk from the cup of the Lord's anger he handed to you. You have drained it down to the bottom of the cup, the drink that makes people stagger around.

Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; he has filled me up with bitter wormwood.

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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