1:5 “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb
Before you were born I set you apart.
I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”
2:21 I planted you in the land
like a special vine of the very best stock.
Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine
that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?
15:5 The Lord cried out,
“Who in the world
Who will grieve over you?
Who will stop long enough
to inquire about how you are doing?
51:7 Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lord’s hand.
She had made the whole world drunk.
The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath.
So they have all gone mad.
51:49 “Babylon must fall
because of the Israelites she has killed,
just as the earth’s mortally wounded fell
because of Babylon.