Discovery BoxIsaiah 51:17 
Context51:17 Wake up! Wake up!
Get up, O Jerusalem!
You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you,
which was full of his anger! 1
You drained dry
the goblet full of intoxicating wine. 2
Isaiah 51:22-23
Context51:22 This is what your sovereign master, 3 the Lord your God, says:
“Look, I have removed from your hand
the cup of intoxicating wine, 4
the goblet full of my anger. 5
You will no longer have to drink it.
51:23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors 6
who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’
You made your back like the ground,
and like the street for those who walked over you.”
1 tn Heb “[you] who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his anger.”
2 tn Heb “the goblet, the cup [that causes] staggering, you drank, you drained.”
3 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
4 tn Heb “the cup of [= that causes] staggering” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV); NASB “the cup of reeling.”
5 tn Heb “the goblet of the cup of my anger.”
6 tn That is, to make them drink it.
