19 These two things have happened to you—who will console you?—devastation and destruction, famine and sword;who will comfort you?
20 Your sons have fainted;they lie at the head of every streetlike an antelope in a net;they are full of the wrath of the Lord,the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted,who are drunk, but not with wine:
22 Thus says your Lord, the Lord,your God who pleads the cause of his people:“Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering;the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
23 and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you,‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;and you have made your back like the groundand like the street for them to pass over.”