A warning to the people of Jerusalem

17 You people of [APO] Jerusalem, wake up [DOU]!

You have experienced Yahweh severely punishing [MTY] you.

Yahweh has caused you to suffer much,

all that he wanted you to suffer,

like [MET] someone who causes another person to suffer

by forcing him to drink every drop of [MTY] a cupful of bitter liquid.

18 Now you do not have any children who are alive [DOU]

and able to take your hand and guide you.

19 You have experienced several disasters:

Your country has become desolate/deserted;

your cities have been destroyed;

many people have died from hunger;

many people have been killed by your enemies’ swords.

Now, there is no one [RHQ] left to console/comfort you and sympathize with you.

20 Your children have fainted and lie in the streets;

they are as helpless as [SIM] an antelope that has been caught in a net.

What has happened to them is because Yahweh has been very angry with them;

he has rebuked them severely.

21 So now, you people who have suffered much,

you act as though you are drunk,

but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine.

22 Yahweh, your Lord and your God,

the one who argues/pleads your case, says this:

“Note this: It is as though [MET] I have taken that cup of bitter liquid from your hands;

I will not be angry with you and cause you to suffer any more.

23 Instead, I will cause those who have tormented you to suffer;

I will severely punish those who said to you,

‘Prostrate yourselves in order that we may walk on you;

lie down on your stomachs

in order that your backs will be like [SIM] streets that we can walk on.’ ”