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Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
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Drunk, But Not on Wine
Commentators unanimously explain that the drunkenness and staggering in this verse are metaphors. The people of Judah were not intoxicated with alcohol but with a spiritual stupor. This condition, which scholars note was self-induced, made them blind to God's truth, unsteady in their principles, and unable to understand God's actions, much like a drunk person cannot see clearly or walk straight.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Stay yourselves - Up to this point, the prophet had given a description of the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib, and of his sudden overthro…
19th Century
Anglican
Stay yourselves ... —Better, Astonish yourselves. We can perhaps best understand the words by picturing to ourse…
16th Century
Protestant
Tarry and wonder. Isaiah pursues the same subject and more keenly attacks the profound stupidity of the people. Instead of “tarry,” some t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Stay yourselves, and wonder Stop a while, pause a little, consider within yourselves the case and circumstances of t…
The complacency of sinners in sinful ways, is a cause for lamentation and wonder. The learned, through prejudice, said that the Divine prophecies w…
13th Century
Catholic
Woe to Ariel. In this part, he presents a threat against the people or against the city, and this is divided into two parts.
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