Isaiah 29:9

Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! 1 Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with beer. 1

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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 will be like when a hungry man dreams he is eating, but when he awakes, his stomach is empty. 1 It will be like when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he when he awakes, he is fainting, with his thirst not quenched. 1 Yes, so will be the great number of nations that fights against Mount Zion. 1

10For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep. 1 He has closed your eyes, the prophets, and has covered your heads, the seers.

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:10Make the heart of this people insensitive, and their ears dull, and blind their eyes. 1 Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and then turn and be healed.”

Isaiah 22:12The Lord Yahweh of hosts called on that day 1 for weeping, for mourning, for shaved heads, and the wearing of sackcloth. 1

Isaiah 29:10For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep. 1 He has closed your eyes, the prophets, and has covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 49:26I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh; and they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. 1 Then all mankind will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Isaiah 51:21But now hear this, you oppressed one and drunken one, but not drunk with wine: 1

Jeremiah 2:12Shudder, heavens, because of this! Be shocked and horrified—this is Yahweh's declaration. 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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