Isaiah 51:17

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Wake up! Wake up!\par Jerusalem, get up!\par The Lord was very angry at you.\par So you were punished.\par \{This punishment was like\} a cup of poison you had to drink.\par And you drank it.\par

Cross References

Job 21:20

Let the sinner see his own punishment.\par Let him feel the anger\par of God All-Powerful.\par

Psalm 11:6

He will make hot coals and burning\par sulphur fall like rain on those bad people.\par Those bad people will get nothing but\par a hot, burning wind. {\cf2\super [63]} \par

Psalm 60:3

You have given your people many troubles.\par We are like drunk people\par staggering and falling down.\par

Psalm 60:5

Use your great power and save us!\par Answer my prayer\par and save the people you love!\par

Psalm 75:10

I will take power away from wicked people,\par and I will give power to good people.\par

Psalm 75:8

\{God is ready to punish evil people.\}\par The Lord has a cup in his hand.\par That cup is filled with poisoned wine.\par He will pour this wine (punishment),\par and wicked people will drink it\par to the last drop.\par

Isaiah 29:9

Be surprised and amazed!\par You will become drunk—\par but not from wine.\par Look and be amazed!\par You will stumble and fall—\par but not from beer.\par

Isaiah 40:2

Speak kindly to Jerusalem!\par Tell Jerusalem,\par ‘Your time of service is finished.\par You have paid the price for your sins.’”\par The Lord punished Jerusalem—\par twice for every sin she did.\par

Isaiah 51:21

Listen to me, poor Jerusalem. You are \{weak like\} a drunk person, but you are not drunk from wine. \{You are weak from that “cup of poison.”\}

Isaiah 51:22

Your God and Master, the Lord, will fight for his people. He says to you, “Look, I am taking this ‘cup of poison’ (punishment) away from you. I am taking my anger away from you. You will not be punished by my anger any more.

Isaiah 51:9

Arm (power) of the Lord, wake up!\par Wake up! Be strong!\par Use your strength\par like you did a long time ago,\par like you have from ancient times.\par You are the power that defeated Rahab.\par You defeated the Dragon. {\cf2\super [418]} \par

Isaiah 52:1

Wake up! Wake up Zion! {\cf2\super [420]} \par Dress yourself!\par Put on your strength!\par Holy Jerusalem, stand up!\par People that have not agreed\par to follow God {\cf2\super [421]} \par will not enter you again.\par Those people are not pure and clean.\par

Isaiah 63:6

While I was angry, I walked on people.\par I punished them while I was mad.\par I poured their blood {\cf2\super [461]} on the ground.”\par

Jeremiah 13:13

Then you will say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: I will make everyone that lives in this land helpless, like a drunken man. I am talking about the kings that sit on David’s throne. I am also talking about the priests, the prophets, and all the people that live in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 25:18

I poured this wine for the people of Jerusalem and Judah. I made the kings and leaders of Judah drink from the cup. I did this so that they would become an empty desert. I did this so that place would be destroyed so badly that people would whistle about it and say curses about that place. And it happened—Judah is like that now!

Jeremiah 25:27

“Jeremiah, say to those nations, this is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says, ‘Drink this cup of my anger. Get drunk from it and vomit! Fall down and don’t get up. Don’t get up because I am sending a sword to kill you.’

Jeremiah 44:6

So, I showed my anger against those people. I punished the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. My anger made Jerusalem and the towns of Judah the empty piles of stone they are today.”

Zechariah 12:2

“Look, I will make Jerusalem like a cup of poison to the nations around her. The nations will come and attack that city. And all of Judah will be caught in the trap.

Matthew 20:22

So Jesus said to the sons, “You don’t understand what you are asking. Can you accept the kind of suffering that I must have {\cf2\super [275]} ?”

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you don’t know God. I say this to shame you.

Ephesians 5:14

And everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why we say:

Deuteronomy 28:28

The Lord will punish you by making you crazy. He will make you blind and confused.

Deuteronomy 28:34

The things you see will make you go crazy!

Revelation 14:10

That person will drink the wine of God’s anger. This wine is prepared with all its strength in the cup of God’s anger. That person will be tortured (hurt) with burning sulfur before the holy angels and the Lamb.

Revelation 16:19

The great city split into three parts. The cities of the nations were destroyed. And God did not forget \{to punish\} Babylon the Great. He gave that city the cup filled with the wine of his terrible anger.

Revelation 18:6

Give that city the same as she gave to others.\par Pay her back twice as much as she did.\par Prepare wine for her that is twice as strong as the wine she prepared for others.\par

Judges 5:12

Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing the song! Get up, Barak! Go capture your enemies, son of Abinoam!