Isaiah 49:26

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. ¹  Then all humankind ²  will recognize that I am the Lord, your deliverer, your protector, ³  the powerful ruler of Jacob.” ⁴ 

Jud 7:22; Ps 9:16; Ps 58:10,11; Ps 83:18; Isa 9:20; Isa 41:14-20; Isa 45:6; Isa 60:16; Eze 39:7; Re 14:20; Re 15:3,4; Re 16:6; Re 17:6

¹ sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness.

² tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).

³ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

⁴ tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.