Isaiah 51:17

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou hast drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

16I will put my words into thy mouth, and I will shelter thee under the shadow of my hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and the Lord shall say to Zion, Thou art my people.

18and there was none to comfort thee of all the children whom thou borest; and there was none to take hold of thy hand, not even of all the children whom thou hast reared.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:34And thou shalt be distracted, because of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Job 21:20Let his eyes see his own destruction, 1 And let him not be saved by the Lord. 1

Psalms 60:3From the ends of the earth have I cried to thee, 1 When my heart was in trouble: 1 Thou liftedst me up on a rock, 1 Thou didst guide me:

Psalms 75:8Thou art terrible; and who shall withstand thee, 1 Because of thine anger? 1

Isaiah 40:2Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double the amount of her sins.

Isaiah 52:1Awake, awake, Zion; put on thy strength, O Zion; and do thou put on thy glory, Jerusalem the holy city: there shall no more pass through thee the uncircumcised and unclean.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 51:10-17

Prayer in Behalf of Israel; Encouragement to the People of God. ( b. c. 706.) 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon… Read the whole commentary →

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