Yesaya 49:26

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 

Yesaya 51:17-23

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! ⁵ 

You drained dry

the goblet full of intoxicating wine. ⁶ 

51:18 There was no one to lead her

among all the children she bore;

there was no one to take her by the hand

among all the children she raised.

51:19 These double disasters confronted you.

But who feels sorry for you?

Destruction and devastation,

famine and sword.

But who consoles you? ⁷ 

51:20 Your children faint;

they lie at the head of every street

like an antelope in a snare.

They are left in a stupor by the Lord’s anger,

by the battle cry of your God. ⁸ 

51:21 So listen to this, oppressed one,

who is drunk, but not from wine!

51:22 This is what your sovereign master, ⁹  the Lord your God, says:

“Look, I have removed from your hand

the cup of intoxicating wine, ¹⁰ 

the goblet full of my anger. ¹¹ 

You will no longer have to drink it.

51:23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors ¹² 

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.”

[49:26]  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.

[49:26]  ² tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).

[49:26]  ³ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.

[51:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “[you] who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his anger.”

[51:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “the goblet, the cup [that causes] staggering, you drank, you drained.”

[51:19]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text has אֲנַחֲמֵךְ (’anakhamekh), a first person form, but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly יִנַחֲמֵךְ (yinakhamekh), a third person form.

[51:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “those who are full of the anger of the Lord, the shout [or “rebuke”] of your God.”

[51:22]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[51:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the cup of [= that causes] staggering” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV); NASB “the cup of reeling.”

[51:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the goblet of the cup of my anger.”

[51:23]  ¹² tn That is, to make them drink it.