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Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:
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Drunk on Affliction
Commentators unanimously explain that the term 'drunken' is not literal but a powerful metaphor. The people are overwhelmed and stupefied, not by wine, but by what scholars describe as the 'cup of affliction' and the 'wrath of God.' This illustrates a state of being completely prostrate from intense suffering and tribulation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And drunken, but not with wine - Overcome and prostrate, but not under the influence of intoxicating drink. They were prostrate by …
19th Century
Anglican
Drunken, but not with wine ... —Same phrase as in Isaiah 29:9.
16th Century
Protestant
Therefore now hear this. He now shows more plainly the reason why he spoke of the calamities of the Church. It was so that believers might…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore hear now this, you afflicted By Babylon, by antichrist and his followers; hear, for your comfort, the foll…
God calls upon his people to be mindful of the things that belong to their everlasting peace. Jerusalem had provoked God, and was made to taste the…
13th Century
Catholic
Give ear to me, you that follow justice. Here he addresses the second obstacle to their liberation, which might be assumed from …
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