Isaiah 51:20 “Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an…”

Isaiah 51:20

Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

World English Bible

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the LORD’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

American Standard Version

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thy sonnes haue fainted, and lye at the head of all the streetes as a wilde bull in a nette, and are full of the wrath of the Lord, and rebuke of thy God.

Darby Translation

Thy children have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an oryx in a net: they are full of the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.

Young's Literal Translation

Thy sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox [in] a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.

Bible in Basic English

Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

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Cross references

“sons”

Jeremiah 14:18 Lamentations 1:15 Lamentations 1:19 Lamentations 4:2 Lamentations 5:13 Isaiah 40:30

Jeremiah 14:18 · BSB

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

Lamentations 1:15 · BSB

The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

Lamentations 1:19 · BSB

I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

Lamentations 4:2 · BSB

How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!

Lamentations 5:13 · BSB

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Isaiah 40:30 · BSB

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

“a wild”

Revelation 16:9–11 Isaiah 8:21 Ezekiel 12:13 Ezekiel 17:20

Revelation 16:9–11 · BSB

And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet they did not repent and give Him glory.

Isaiah 8:21 · BSB

They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

Ezekiel 12:13 · BSB

But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

Ezekiel 17:20 · BSB

I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.

“full”

Isaiah 51:17 Isaiah 51:21 Isaiah 9:19–21 Revelation 14:10 Psalm 88:15 Psalm 88:16

Isaiah 51:17 · BSB

Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs— the cup that makes men stagger.

Isaiah 51:21 · BSB

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

Isaiah 9:19–21 · BSB

By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

Revelation 14:10 · BSB

he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

Psalm 88:15 · BSB

From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

Psalm 88:16 · BSB

Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

“but”

Isaiah 29:9 Isaiah 49:26 Ezekiel 39:19

Isaiah 29:9 · BSB

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

Isaiah 49:26 · BSB

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Ezekiel 39:19 · BSB

At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk.

Also

Jeremiah 14:16 Deuteronomy 14:5 Isaiah 5:25

Jeremiah 14:16 · BSB

And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own ev…

Deuteronomy 14:5 · BSB

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Isaiah 5:25 · BSB

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turne…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

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