Isaiah 29:9

Pause, and wonder? 1 Blind yourselves and be blind! 1 They are drunken, but not with yayin; 1 they stagger, but not with strong drink. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

In Context

8It shall even be 1 as when a hungry man hath a chalom, and, hinei, he eateth; 1 but he awaketh, and his nefesh is empty; 1 or as when a thirsty man hath a chalom, and, hinei, he drinketh; 1 but he awaketh, and, hinei, he is faint, 1 and his nefesh still thirsts; 1 so shall the multitude of kol HaGoyim be, 1 that fight against Har Tziyon. 1

10For Hashem hath poured out upon you 1 the ruach tardemah (spirit of deep sleep), 1 and hath closed your eynayim; namely, that of the nevi'im 1 and your heads, you seers, hath He covered.

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:10Make the lev HaAm hazeh stubborn, 1 and make their ears stopped up, 1 their eyes heavy; lest they see with their eyes, 1 and hear with their ears, 1 and understand with their lev. 1 And have a spiritual turnaround conversion, 1 and be healed. 1

Isaiah 22:12And in that day did Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os 1 call to weeping, and to wailing, 1 and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; 1

Isaiah 29:10For Hashem hath poured out upon you 1 the ruach tardemah (spirit of deep sleep), 1 and hath closed your eynayim; namely, that of the nevi'im 1 and your heads, you seers, hath He covered.

Isaiah 49:26And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own basar; 1 and they shall be shikkor (drunk) with their own dahm, as with asis (new wine); 1 and kol basar shall know that I Hashem am thy Moshi'a 1 and thy Go'el, the Avir Ya'akov (Mighty One of Jacob).

Isaiah 51:21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted one, 1 thou drunken one, but not with yayin; 1

Jeremiah 2:12Be appalled, O ye Shomayim, at this, 1 and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Hashem. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:2-9

The Punishment of Ariel. ( b. c. 725.) 1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one… Read the whole commentary →

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