Habakkuk 2:16
But you are the ones who soon will be disgraced instead of being honored. It will be as though you are forced to drink a lot of wine in order that you will also stagger around, drunk. You will drink the wine that symbolizes that Yahweh will punish you, and he will cause you to be disgraced instead of being greatly respected any more.
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Psalms 75:8It is as though Yahweh holds a cup in his hand; it is filled with wine that has spices mixed in it to cause those who drink it to become more drunk; and when Yahweh pours it out, he will force all the wicked people to drink it; they will drink every drop of it, which means that he will give them all the punishment that they deserve.
Isaiah 20:4What will happen is that the army of the King of Assyria will invade those countries and capture many of the people and take them away as their prisoners. They will force all them, including both the young ones and the old ones, to walk naked and barefoot. They will also force them to have no clothes around their buttocks, which will cause the people of Egypt to be ashamed.
Isaiah 47:3You will be naked and very ashamed. I will get vengeance on you and not pity you.”
Isaiah 51:21So 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.
Jeremiah 25:26and to kings in countries to the north that are near to Israel and to countries that are far from Israel, one after the other— I went to all the kingdoms in the world [HYP]. And finally, in my vision I went to Babylon, and gave some of the wine to the king of Babylon—the wine that symbolized that Yahweh would punish the people of Babylon because he was angry with them [MTY].
Lamentations 4:21You people of [IDM] Edom and Uz, you may be happy about what is happening to us now, but Yahweh will be punishing [MTY] you also. You will become drunk and will be ashamed because your enemies will have stripped off your clothes.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:16-20
Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 600.) 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord 's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the… Read the whole commentary →