11. Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return;they will enter Zion with a happy shout.Unending joy will crown them,happiness and joy will overwhelm them;grief and suffering will disappear.
12. “I, I am the one who consoles you.Why are you afraid of mortal men,of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?
13. Why do you forget the Lord, who made you,who stretched out the skyand founded the earth?Why do you constantly tremble all day longat the anger of the oppressor,when he makes plans to destroy?Where is the anger of the oppressor?
14. The one who suffers will soon be released;he will not die in prison,he will not go hungry.
15. I am the Lord your God,who churns up the sea so that its waves surge.The Lord who commands armies is his name!
16. I commission you as my spokesman;I cover you with the palm of my hand,to establish the sky and to found the earth,to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
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!You drained drythe goblet full of intoxicating wine.
18. There was no one to lead heramong all the children she bore;there was no one to take her by the handamong all the children she raised.
19. These double disasters confronted you.But who feels sorry for you?Destruction and devastation,famine and sword.But who consoles you?
20. Your children faint;they lie at the head of every streetlike an antelope in a snare.They are left in a stupor by the Lord’s anger,by the battle cry of your God.
21. So listen to this, oppressed one,who is drunk, but not from wine!
22. This is what your sovereign master, the Lord your God, says:“Look, I have removed from your handthe cup of intoxicating wine,the goblet full of my anger.You will no longer have to drink it.