Disciplined by God's Wrath

Isaiah 51:17-20 (NIV)

^17  Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes men stagger. ^18  Of all the sons she bore there was none to guide her; of all the sons she reared there was none to take her by the hand. ^19  These double calamities have come upon you-- who can comfort you?-- ruin and destruction, famine and sword-- who can console you? ^20  Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the LORD and the rebuke of your God.