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Don’t you believe it? Then go ahead and be blind. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from liquor!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/29.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/29.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/29.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/29.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/29.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be delayed and horrified, Blind yourselves and be blind; They become drunk, but not with wine, They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/29.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Be delayed and wait, Blind yourselves and be blind; They become drunk, but not with wine, They stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/29.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Be delayed and wait. Blind yourselves and be blind. They become drunk, but not with wine; They stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/29.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Astonish yourselves and be astonished, Blind yourselves and be blind; They become drunk, but not with wine; They stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/29.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Stop <i>and</i> take some time and wonder [at this prophecy], Blind yourselves and be blinded [at its fulfillment by your spiritual incompetence]. They are drunk, but not from wine; They stagger, but not from strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/29.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with beer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/29.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with beer. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/29.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/29.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Be shocked and stunned, you prophets! Refuse to see. Get drunk and stagger, but not from wine. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/29.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Tarry ye and wonder, take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/29.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />If you confuse yourselves, you will be confused. If you blind yourselves, you will be blinded. You are drunk, but not from wine. You stagger, but not from liquor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/29.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Go ahead and be stupid! Go ahead and be blind! Get drunk without any wine! Stagger without drinking a drop! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/29.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Act stupid! Be astonished! Act blind, and be blind! Be drunk, but not from wine; stagger around, but not from strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/29.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/29.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/29.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Pause and wonder. Blind yourselves and be blind. They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/29.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/29.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/29.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Linger and wonder, look, indeed, look, "" Be drunk, and not with wine, "" Stagger, and not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/29.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Tarry and wonder, look ye, yea, look, Be drunk, and not with wine, Stagger, and not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/29.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Linger ye, and wonder; delight yourselves, and be ye blinded; they were drunken and not with wine; they reeled and not with strong drink.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/29.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Be astonished, and wander, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/29.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Be stupefied and in wonder! Shake and quiver! Be inebriated, but not from wine! Stagger, but not from drunkenness!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/29.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Stupefy yourselves and stay stupid; blind yourselves and stay blind! You who are drunk, but not from wine, who stagger, but not from strong drink! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/29.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not from wine; stagger, but not from strong drink!<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/29.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />They are dumbfounded and amazed; they are troubled and stagger; they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/29.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />They marveled and were astonished and they were disturbed and they were dazed because they are drunk, not from wine, and because they stagger, not from liquor<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/29.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Stupefy yourselves, and be stupid! Blind yourselves, and be blind! Ye that are drunken, but not with wine, That stagger, but not with strong drink.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/29.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Faint ye, and be amazed, and be overpowered, not with strong drink nor with wine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/29-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=5968" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/29.htm">Woe to the City of David</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion. <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/4102.htm" title="4102: hiṯ·mah·mə·hū (V-Hitpael-Imp-mp) -- To linger, tarry. Apparently a denominative from mah; properly, to question or hesitate, i.e. to be reluctant.">Stop</a> <a href="/hebrew/8539.htm" title="8539: ū·ṯə·mā·hū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To be astounded or dumbfounded. A primitive root; to be in consternation.">and be astonished;</a> <a href="/hebrew/8173.htm" title="8173: hiš·ta·‘aš·‘ū (V-Hitpael-Imp-mp) -- A primitive root; to look upon, i.e. Fondle, please or amuse; to look about, i.e. Stare.">blind yourselves</a> <a href="/hebrew/8173.htm" title="8173: wā·šō·‘ū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- A primitive root; to look upon, i.e. Fondle, please or amuse; to look about, i.e. Stare.">and be sightless;</a> <a href="/hebrew/7937.htm" title="7937: šā·ḵə·rū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to become tipsy; in a qualified sense, to satiate with a stimulating drink or influence.">be drunk,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō- (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">but not</a> <a href="/hebrew/3196.htm" title="3196: ya·yin (N-ms) -- Wine. From an unused root meaning to effervesce; wine; by implication, intoxication.">with wine;</a> <a href="/hebrew/5128.htm" title="5128: nā·‘ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively.">stagger,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">but not</a> <a href="/hebrew/7941.htm" title="7941: šê·ḵār (N-ms) -- Intoxicating drink, strong drink. From shakar; an intoxicant, i.e. Intensely alcoholic liquor.">from strong drink.</a> </span><span class="reftext">10</span>For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-13.htm">Matthew 13:13-15</a></span><br />This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’ / In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. / For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/11-8.htm">Romans 11:8</a></span><br />as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-14.htm">2 Corinthians 3:14-15</a></span><br />But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed. / And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/4-12.htm">Mark 4:12</a></span><br />so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/12-40.htm">John 12:40</a></span><br />“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/28-26.htm">Acts 28:26-27</a></span><br />‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.” / For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_thessalonians/2-11.htm">2 Thessalonians 2:11-12</a></span><br />For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, / in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/4-18.htm">Ephesians 4:18</a></span><br />They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-21.htm">Jeremiah 5:21</a></span><br />“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/12-2.htm">Ezekiel 12:2</a></span><br />“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-4.htm">Deuteronomy 29:4</a></span><br />Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/69-23.htm">Psalm 69:23</a></span><br />May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/6-9.htm">Isaiah 6:9-10</a></span><br />And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/44-18.htm">Isaiah 44:18</a></span><br />They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/7-11.htm">Zechariah 7:11-12</a></span><br />But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. / They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.</p><p class="hdg">and wonder</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/1-2.htm">Isaiah 1:2</a></b></br> Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/33-13.htm">Isaiah 33:13,14</a></b></br> Hear, ye <i>that are</i> far off, what I have done; and, ye <i>that are</i> near, acknowledge my might… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/2-12.htm">Jeremiah 2:12</a></b></br> Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.</p><p class="hdg">cry ye out, and cry.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/22-12.htm">Isaiah 22:12,13</a></b></br> And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/26-45.htm">Matthew 26:45</a></b></br> Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take <i>your</i> rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/mark/14-41.htm">Mark 14:41</a></b></br> And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take <i>your</i> rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</p><p class="hdg">they are</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/29-10.htm">Isaiah 29:10</a></b></br> For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/19-14.htm">Isaiah 19:14</a></b></br> The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken <i>man</i> staggereth in his vomit.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Isaiah 28:7,8</a></b></br> But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble <i>in</i> judgment… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/13-8.htm">Amazed</a> <a href="/job/26-11.htm">Astonished</a> <a href="/psalms/48-5.htm">Astounded</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Beer</a> <a href="/psalms/146-8.htm">Blind</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-20.htm">Covered</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-14.htm">Cry</a> <a href="/psalms/119-60.htm">Delayed</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/songs/5-1.htm">Drunk</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-20.htm">Drunken</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-16.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-8.htm">Full</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-18.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-9.htm">Pause</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-4.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Stagger</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-6.htm">Steps</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/psalms/76-6.htm">Stunned</a> <a href="/job/19-3.htm">Stupefy</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-11.htm">Stupid</a> <a href="/psalms/78-65.htm">Stupor</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/5-8.htm">Surprised</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-11.htm">Tarry</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Uncertain</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-8.htm">Wait</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/isaiah/20-3.htm">Wonder</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-20.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/2-12.htm">Amazed</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-23.htm">Astonished</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-9.htm">Astounded</a> <a href="/isaiah/56-12.htm">Beer</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-18.htm">Blind</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-10.htm">Covered</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-19.htm">Cry</a> <a href="/isaiah/46-13.htm">Delayed</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-6.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-5.htm">Drunk</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-7.htm">Drunken</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-10.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-26.htm">Full</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-13.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-3.htm">Pause</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-10.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-17.htm">Stagger</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-25.htm">Steps</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-2.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-13.htm">Stunned</a> <a href="/job/19-3.htm">Stupefy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-22.htm">Stupid</a> <a href="/daniel/8-18.htm">Stupor</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-14.htm">Surprised</a> <a href="/isaiah/46-13.htm">Tarry</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-32.htm">Uncertain</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-18.htm">Wait</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-17.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-14.htm">Wonder</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-11.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 29</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-1.htm">God's heavy judgment upon Jerusalem</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-7.htm">The insatiableness of her enemies</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-9.htm">The senselessness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-13.htm">And deep hypocrisy of the people</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm">A promise of sanctification to the godly</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the context of Isaiah, the people of Judah are being warned about their spiritual complacency and impending judgment. The astonishment is a reaction to the realization of their spiritual blindness and the consequences of their actions. This echoes the call to repentance found throughout the prophetic books, where God often calls His people to stop and consider their ways (e.g., <a href="/haggai/1-5.htm">Haggai 1:5-7</a>).<p><b>blind yourselves and be sightless;</b><br>This is a metaphor for spiritual blindness, a condition where the people are unable to perceive God's truth and righteousness. It reflects a self-imposed ignorance, where the people choose not to see or understand God's will. This theme of spiritual blindness is prevalent in the Bible, notably in the New Testament, where Jesus often speaks of the Pharisees as blind guides (<a href="/matthew/15-14.htm">Matthew 15:14</a>). The blindness here is both a judgment and a consequence of their rebellion against God.<p><b>be drunk, but not with wine;</b><br>This phrase uses the imagery of drunkenness to describe a state of confusion and disorientation, not caused by alcohol but by spiritual and moral corruption. The people are intoxicated by their own pride, idolatry, and false security. This metaphor is used elsewhere in Scripture to describe the effects of God's judgment, where people are unable to think or act clearly (<a href="/jeremiah/25-15.htm">Jeremiah 25:15-16</a>). It highlights the depth of their spiritual decay and the seriousness of their condition.<p><b>stagger, but not from strong drink.</b><br>The staggering represents instability and a lack of direction, a result of their spiritual blindness and moral confusion. This condition is a direct consequence of turning away from God and relying on their own understanding. The imagery of staggering is used in other prophetic writings to depict the disorientation that comes from God's judgment (<a href="/isaiah/51-17.htm">Isaiah 51:17-23</a>). It serves as a warning of the inevitable downfall that comes from rejecting God's guidance and truth.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>The prophet who delivered God's messages to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. He is known for his prophecies concerning judgment and redemption.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah_and_jerusalem.htm">Judah and Jerusalem</a></b><br>The primary audience of Isaiah's prophecies. During this time, they were facing spiritual blindness and impending judgment due to their disobedience to God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_blindness.htm">Spiritual Blindness</a></b><br>A condition described in this verse where people are unable to perceive or understand God's truth, despite being exposed to it.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_awareness.htm">Spiritual Awareness</a></b><br>We must be vigilant in maintaining spiritual awareness to avoid the pitfalls of spiritual blindness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/self-examination.htm">Self-Examination</a></b><br>Regularly examine your heart and mind to ensure you are not spiritually blind or deaf to God's truth.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/sobriety_of_spirit.htm">Sobriety of Spirit</a></b><br>Just as physical drunkenness impairs judgment, spiritual drunkenness can lead to poor spiritual discernment. Seek the Holy Spirit for clarity and understanding.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/heeding_warnings.htm">Heeding Warnings</a></b><br>God often uses warnings to draw us back to Him. Pay attention to the signs and messages He sends through His Word and His messengers.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/dependence_on_god.htm">Dependence on God</a></b><br>Recognize our need for God's guidance to see and understand His will clearly. Pray for spiritual insight and wisdom.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_29.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 29</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_isaiah_24_depict_cosmic_ruin.htm">Why does Isaiah 24 describe devastation on a cosmic scale that seems scientifically impossible for the ancient world to witness or record?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'trespass'_mean_in_the_bible.htm">How can something exist if I can't understand it?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_jesus'_life_and_teachings_fulfill_god.htm">How does Jesus' life and teachings fulfill God's promise?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_was_the_confessing_church's_goal.htm">What is Ophir's significance in the Bible?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/29.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) <span class= "bld">Stay yourselves . . .</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">Astonish yourselves. </span>We can perhaps best understand the words by picturing to ourselves the prophet as preaching or reciting the previous prediction to his disciples and to the people. They are staggered, startled, incredulous, and he bursts into words of vehement reproof. The form of the verb implies that their astonished unbelief was self-caused. The change from the second person to the third implies that the prophet paused for a moment in his address to describe their state as an observer. Outwardly, they were as men too drunk to understand, but their drunkenness was not that of the "wine<span class= "ital">" </span>or the "strong drink" of the fermented palm-juice, in which, as in <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm" title="But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.">Isaiah 28:7</a>, the prophet implies that they habitually indulged. Now their drunkenness was of another type.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/29.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 9-12.</span> - NEITHER WARNING NOR PROMISE COMPREHENDED BY THOSE TO WHOM THEY HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED, "Who hath believed our report?" says the prophet in another place (<a href="/isaiah/53-1.htm">Isaiah 53:1</a>), "and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?" It was among the most painful circumstances attaching to the prophetical office, that scarcely ever was the prophet held in any esteem among his own people, or in his own lifetime. Isaiah knows that his warning will fall dead - that the people and their rulers have neither "eyes to see" nor "ears to hear." He places on record this knowledge, while at the same time striving if by any means he may arouse some from their condition of dull apathy. <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Stay yourselves, and wonder</span>; rather, <span class="accented">stand stupefied and be astonished</span>. The prophet bids them act as he knows that they will act. They will simply "stare with astonishment" at a prophecy which will seem to them "out of all relation to facts" (Cheyne). They will not yield it the slightest credence. They will only marvel how a sane man could have uttered such egregious folly. <span class="cmt_word">Cry ye out, and cry</span>. Delitzsch and Mr. Cheyne translate, "Blind yourselves, and be blind," which certainly gives a much better sense, and is justified by the use of the same verb in <a href="/isaiah/6-10.htm">Isaiah 6:10</a>. As Pharaoh began by hardening his own heart, and then God hardened it ('Pulpit Commentary' on Exodus, pp. 103, 166, 203, etc.), so those who blind their own eyes, and will not see when they have the power, are, in the end, if they persist, judicially blinded by God. <span class="cmt_word">They are drunken, but not with wine.</span> "The drunkards of Ephraim" (<a href="/isaiah/28-3.htm">Isaiah 28:3</a>) were such literally. They "erred through strong drink" (<a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Isaiah 28:7</a>); they "were swallowed up of wine;" but the case was different with the infatuated ones of Judah. They were morally, not physically, intoxicated. Their pride and self-trust rendered them as irrational and as unimpressionable as ever drunkenness rendered any man; but they were not actual drunkards. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/29-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Stop</span><br /><span class="heb">הִתְמַהְמְה֣וּ</span> <span class="translit">(hiṯ·mah·mə·hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4102.htm">Strong's 4102: </a> </span><span class="str2">To question, hesitate, to be reluctant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and be astonished;</span><br /><span class="heb">וּתְמָ֔הוּ</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ṯə·mā·hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8539.htm">Strong's 8539: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be astounded or dumbfounded</span><br /><br /><span class="word">blind yourselves</span><br /><span class="heb">הִשְׁתַּֽעַשְׁע֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(hiš·ta·‘aš·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8173.htm">Strong's 8173: </a> </span><span class="str2">To look upon, fondle, please, amuse, to look about, stare</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and be sightless;</span><br /><span class="heb">וָשֹׁ֑עוּ</span> <span class="translit">(wā·šō·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8173.htm">Strong's 8173: </a> </span><span class="str2">To look upon, fondle, please, amuse, to look about, stare</span><br /><br /><span class="word">be drunk,</span><br /><span class="heb">שָֽׁכְר֣וּ</span> <span class="translit">(šā·ḵə·rū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7937.htm">Strong's 7937: </a> </span><span class="str2">To become tipsy, to satiate with a, stimulating drink, influence</span><br /><br /><span class="word">but not</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹא־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with wine;</span><br /><span class="heb">יַ֔יִן</span> <span class="translit">(ya·yin)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3196.htm">Strong's 3196: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wine, intoxication</span><br /><br /><span class="word">stagger,</span><br /><span class="heb">נָע֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(nā·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5128.htm">Strong's 5128: </a> </span><span class="str2">To quiver, wave, waver, tremble, totter</span><br /><br /><span class="word">but not</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from strong drink.</span><br /><span class="heb">שֵׁכָֽר׃</span> <span class="translit">(šê·ḵār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7941.htm">Strong's 7941: </a> </span><span class="str2">An intoxicant, intensely alcoholic liquor</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/29-9.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 29:9 Pause and wonder! 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