Isaiah 51:20

Your sons have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like an antelope in a net; 1 they are filled with the anger of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. 1

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In The King James Version

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

In Context

19These two troubles happened to you—who will grieve with you?— 1 desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. Who will comfort you? + 51:19 The Hebrew text and some modern versions have How will I comfort you? , most modern versions correct this passage to Who will comfort you? 1

21But now hear this, you oppressed one and drunken one, but not drunk with wine: 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 14:5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, and ibex, and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Isaiah 5:25Therefore the anger of Yahweh is kindled against his people. He has reached out with his hand against them and has punished them. 1 The mountains tremble, and their corpses are like garbage in the streets. 1 In all these things, his anger does not subside; instead, his hand is still stretched out. 1

Isaiah 9:19Through the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire. 1 No man spares his brother. 1

Isaiah 40:30Even young people become tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall: 1

Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, 1 you who have drunk out of the hand of Yahweh from the bowl of his anger; 1 you who have drunk out of the bowl, down to the dregs from the cup of staggering. 1

Jeremiah 14:16Then the people to whom they prophesied will be thrown out in the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword, for there will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters—for I will pour out their wickedness on them. 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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