Isaiah 51:21

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted one, 1 thou drunken one, but not with yayin; 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20Thy banim have fainted, they lie at the rosh of all the streets, 1 like a wild bull in a net; 1 they are full of the chamat Hashem, 1 the rebuke of thy G-d. 1

22Thus saith thy L-rd Hashem, 1 and thy G-d that pleadeth the cause of His people: 1 Hinei, I have taken out of thine yad 1 the Kos HaTarelah (Cup of Reeling, the Cup that causes reeling), 1 even the dregs of the cup of My fury; 1 thou shalt no more drink it again; 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake, rise up, O Yerushalayim, 1 which hast drunk at the Yad Hashem 1 the kos of His fury; thou hast drunk to the dregs 1 and drained dry the Kos HaTarelah (Cup of Reeling). 1

Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with merorim (bitter herbs); 1 He hath made me drunk with suffering. 1

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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