Astonish yourselves[a] and be astonished;
    blind yourselves and be blind!
Be drunk,[b] but not with wine;
    (A)stagger,[c] but not with strong drink!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:9 Or Linger awhile
  2. Isaiah 29:9 Or They are drunk
  3. Isaiah 29:9 Or they stagger

21 (A)Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted,
    who are drunk, but not with wine:
22 Thus says your Lord, the Lord,
    your God (B)who pleads the cause of his people:
“Behold, I have taken from your hand (C)the cup of staggering;
the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;

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And I saw the woman, drunk (A)with the blood of the saints, the blood of (B)the martyrs of Jesus.[a]

When I saw her, I marveled greatly.

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  1. Revelation 17:6 Greek the witnesses to Jesus

26 (A)I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
    and they shall be drunk (B)with their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
    that (C)I am the Lord your Savior,
    and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
    and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
    trembling has seized the godless:
(A)“Who among us can dwell (B)with the consuming fire?
    Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”

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14 The Lord has mingled within her (A)a spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
    (B)as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

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40 Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about:

41 (A)“‘Look, you scoffers,
    be astounded and perish;
for I am doing a work in your days,
    a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”

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41 And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? (A)It is enough; (B)the hour has come. (C)The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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45 Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Sleep and take your rest later on.[a] See, (A)the hour is at hand, and (B)the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:45 Or Are you still sleeping and taking your rest?

The Lord's Answer

(A)“Look among the nations, and see;
    wonder and be astounded.
(B)For I am doing a work in your days
    that you would not believe if told.

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21 (A)Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
    you who dwell in (B)the land of Uz;
but to you also (C)the cup shall pass;
    you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.

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Babylon was (A)a golden cup in the Lord's hand,
    (B)making all the earth drunken;
(C)the nations drank of her wine;
    therefore the nations went mad.

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27 “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of (B)the sword that I am sending among you.’

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Lying Prophets

Concerning the prophets:

(A)My heart is broken within me;
    (B)all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
    like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord
    and because of his holy words.

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12 Be appalled, (A)O heavens, at this;
    be shocked, be utterly desolate,
declares the Lord,

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17 (A)Wake yourself, wake yourself,
    stand up, O Jerusalem,
(B)you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
    the cup of his wrath,
who have drunk to the dregs
    the bowl, (C)the cup of staggering.

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10 (A)For the Lord has poured out upon you
    a spirit of deep sleep,
and has closed your eyes (the prophets),
    and covered your heads (the seers).

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(A)These also reel with wine
    and (B)stagger with strong drink;
the priest and (C)the prophet reel with strong drink,
    they are swallowed by[a] wine,
    they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
    they stumble in giving judgment.
For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
    with no space left.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:7 Or confused by

12 In that day (A)the Lord God of hosts
    called for weeping and mourning,
    for (B)baldness and (C)wearing sackcloth;
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating flesh and 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 (B)earth;
    for the Lord has spoken:
“Children[a] (C)have I reared and brought up,
    but they have rebelled against me.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:2 Or Sons; also verse 4

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