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¹⁷Rouse yourself, rouse yourself! Stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl of staggering. ¹⁸There is no one to guide her among all the children she has borne; there is no one to take her by the hand among all the children she has brought up. ¹⁹These two things have befallen you—who will grieve with you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword— who will comfort you? ²⁰Your children have fainted, they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God. ²¹Therefore hear this, you who are wounded, who are drunk, but not with wine: ²²Thus says your Sovereign, the Lord, your God who pleads the cause of his people: See, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; you shall drink no more from the bowl of my wrath. ²³And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, “Bow down, that we may walk on you”; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to walk on.