51:17 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
51:1 “Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, 3
who seek the Lord!
Look at the rock from which you were chiseled,
at the quarry 4 from which you were dug! 5
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 Or “righteousness” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “justice”; NLT “hope for deliverance.”
4 tn Heb “the excavation of the hole.”
5 sn The “rock” and “quarry” refer here to Abraham and Sarah, the progenitors of the nation.