Isaiah 51:23

I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, those who have said to you, 'Lie down, that we may walk over you'; 1 you made your back like the ground and like the street for them to walk on.”

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In The King James Version

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

In Context

22Your Lord Yahweh, your God, who pleads the cause of his people, says this, 1 “See, I have taken the cup of staggering from your hand— 1 the bowl, which is the cup of my anger—so that you will not drink it again. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 65:11You crown the year with your goodness, 1 and your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. 1

Psalms 129:3The plowers plowed on my back; 1 they made their furrows long. 1

Proverbs 21:18A wicked person is ransom for the righteous person, 1 and the treacherous person is ransom for upright people. 1

Jeremiah 25:15For Yahweh, God of Israel, said this to me, “Take this cup of the wine of fury from my hand and make all the nations to which I am sending you drink it.

Revelation 11:2But do not measure the courtyard outside the temple, for it has been given over to the Gentiles. They will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

Revelation 17:6I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs for Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

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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