Isaiah 51:21-23

21-23. Hear now this It is the same speaker still, but the address turns from the picture of suffering to that of hope and promise.

Drunken, but not with wine Because she has drunken of the full cup of wrath she is now to hear what Jehovah in mercy purposes to do. God takes from her hand the goblet of reeling, the cup of suffering with which she has been drunken, and of this she is to drink no more. The oppressors of Jerusalem are now to have their turn at the cup. Jerusalem has had her deserts. Her subjects have long been captives under tyranny, both at home as vassals, and abroad in bitter exile. The time now is come for a change; she is to be delivered, and her tormentors to be punished.