Isaiah 29:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Isaiah 29:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 51:21-22
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: …
Isaiah 49:26
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Isaiah 33:13-14
Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. …
Isaiah 19:14
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Topics

Backsliders Death Godlessness Holy Spirit Israel, Prophecies Concerning Obduracy (hardness)Penitent Reprobacy

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-16)

Here, I. The prophet stands amazed at the stupidity of the greatest part of the Jewish nation. They had Levites, who taught the good knowledge of the Lord and had encouragement from Hezekiah in doing so, 2 Chron. 30:22. They had prophets, who brought them messages immediately from God, and signified to them what were the causes and what would be the effects of God’s displeasure against them. Now,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Stay--rather, “Be astounded”; expressing the stupid and amazed incredulity with which the Jews received Isaiah’s announcement. wonder--The second imperative, as often (Is 8:9), is a threat; the first is a simple declaration of a fact, “Be astounded, since you choose to be so, at the prophecy, soon you will be amazed at the sight of the actual event” [Maurer]. cry ... out ... cry--rather, “Be ye…