World English Bible
"Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:"
— Isaiah 51:21, World English Bible
“Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:”
“Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: ”
“So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!”
“Therefore hear this, thou poor little one, and thou that art drunk but not with wine.”
“So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:”
“Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:”
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.
These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.
Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:
and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."