The Blindness of Disobedience

Pause and wonder!
Blind yourselves and be blind!
(A)They are drunk, (B)but not with wine;
They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.

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21 Therefore please hear this, you afflicted,
And drunk (A)but not with wine.
22 Thus says your Lord,
The Lord and your God,
Who (B)pleads the cause of His people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
The cup of trembling,
The dregs of the cup of My fury;
You shall no longer drink it.

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I saw (A)the woman, drunk (B)with the blood of the saints and with the blood of (C)the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

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13 Hear, (A)you who are afar off, what I have done;
And you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:
“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring (B)fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”

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14 The Lord has mingled (A)a perverse spirit in her midst;
And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

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40 Beware therefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you:

41 ‘Behold,(A) you despisers,
Marvel and perish!
For I work a work in your days,
A work which you will by no means believe,
Though one were to declare it to you.’

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41 Then He came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough! (A)The hour has come; behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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45 Then He came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour [a]is at hand, and the Son of Man is being (A)betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:45 has drawn near

The Lord’s Reply

“Look(A) among the nations and watch—
Be utterly astounded!
For I will work a work in your days
Which you would not believe, though it were told you.

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21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of (A)Edom,
You who dwell in the land of Uz!
(B)The cup shall also pass over to you
And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.

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(A)Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand,
That made all the earth drunk.
(B)The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations (C)are deranged.

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27 “Therefore you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)“Drink, (B)be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’

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False Prophets and Empty Oracles

My heart within me is broken
Because of the prophets;
(A)All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man,
And like a man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the Lord,
And because of His holy words.

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12 Be astonished, O heavens, at this,
And be horribly afraid;
Be very desolate,” says the Lord.

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God’s Fury Removed

17 (A)Awake, awake!
Stand up, O Jerusalem,
You who (B)have drunk at the hand of the Lord
The cup of His fury;
You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling,
And drained it out.

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26 I will (A)feed those who oppress you with their own flesh,
And they shall be drunk with their own (B)blood as with sweet wine.
All flesh (C)shall know
That I, the Lord, am your Savior,
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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10 For (A)the Lord has poured out on you
The spirit of deep sleep,
And has (B)closed your eyes, namely, the prophets;
And He has covered your heads, namely, (C)the seers.

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But they also (A)have erred through wine,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
(B)The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink,
They are swallowed up by wine,
They are out of the way through intoxicating drink;
They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
For all tables are full of vomit and filth;
No place is clean.

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12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts
(A)Called for weeping and for mourning,
(B)For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13 But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and (C)drinking wine:
(D)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

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The Wickedness of Judah

(A)Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!
For the Lord has spoken:
“I have nourished and brought up children,
And they have rebelled against Me;

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