14. Soon all you captives will be released!Imprisonment, starvation, and death will not be your fate!
15. For I am the lord your God,who stirs up the sea, causing its waves to roar.My name is the lord of Heaven’s Armies.
16. And I have put my words in your mouthand hidden you safely in my hand.I stretched out the sky like a canopyand laid the foundations of the earth.I am the one who says to Israel,‘You are my people!’”
17. Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem!You have drunk the cup of the lord’s fury.You have drunk the cup of terror,tipping out its last drops.
18. Not one of your children is left aliveto take your hand and guide you.
19. These two calamities have fallen on you:desolation and destruction, famine and war.And who is left to sympathize with you?Who is left to comfort you?