²⁷ They reeled^(A) and staggered like drunkards;
    they were at their wits’ end.

²⁵ They grope in darkness with no light;^(A)
    he makes them stagger like drunkards.^(B)

⁹ Be stunned and amazed,^(A)
    blind yourselves and be sightless;^(B)
be drunk,^(C) but not from wine,^(D)
    stagger,^(E) but not from beer.

¹⁴ The Lord has poured into them
    a spirit of dizziness;^(A)
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
    as a drunkard staggers^(B) around in his vomit.

³ The Egyptians will lose heart,^(A)
    and I will bring their plans^(B) to nothing;^(C)
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
    the mediums and the spiritists.^(D)

²⁰ The earth reels like a drunkard,^(A)
    it sways like a hut^(B) in the wind;
so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion^(C)
    that it falls^(D)—never to rise again.^(E)

²⁰ Should he be told that I want to speak?
    Would anyone ask to be swallowed up?