Isaiah 29:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Be astounded and stunned; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk but not from wine; stagger but not from strong drink!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Stop and wonder [at this prophecy, if you choose, whether you understand it or not; soon you will witness the actual event] and be confounded [reluctantly]! Blind yourselves [now, if you choose; take your pleasure] and then be blinded [at the actual occurrence]. They are drunk, but not from wine; they stagger, but not from strong drink [but from spiritual stupor].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Common English Bible

⁹ Be shocked and stunned; blind yourselves; be blind! Be drunk, but not on wine; stagger, but not on account of beer!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Be stupefied and in wonder! Shake and quiver! Be inebriated, but not from wine! Stagger, but not from drunkenness!

Isaiah 29:9 Cross References

Revelation 17:6

And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.

Isaiah 49:26

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

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has poured into them a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

Mark 14:41

He came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Enough! The hour has come; the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Matthew 26:45

Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Now the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Habakkuk 1:5

Look at the nations and see! Be astonished! Be astounded! For a work is being done in your days that you would not believe if you were told.

Lamentations 4:21

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter Edom, you that live in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.

Jeremiah 51:7

Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine, and so the nations went mad.

Jeremiah 25:27

Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink; get drunk and vomit; fall and rise no more because of the sword that I am sending among you.

Jeremiah 23:9

Concerning the prophets: My heart is crushed within me; all my bones shake; I have become like a drunkard, like one overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.

Jeremiah 2:12

Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked; be utterly desolate, says the Lord,

Isaiah 51:17

Rouse yourself, rouse yourself! Stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the cup of staggering.

Isaiah 29:10

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

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord has spoken: I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 29:1

Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the festivals run their round.

Isaiah 56:10

Israel’s sentinels are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 63:6

I trampled down peoples in my anger; I crushed them in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

Jeremiah 4:9

On that day, says the Lord, courage shall fail the king and the officials; the priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the mind of this people dull, and stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that they may not look with their eyes and listen with their ears and comprehend with their minds and turn and be healed.”

Jeremiah 13:13

Then you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—with drunkenness.