Isaías 19:14

14 El SEÑOR mezcló espíritu de vahido en medio de él; e hicieron errar a Egipto en toda su obra, como desatina el borracho en su vómito

Isaías 19:14 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst
thereof
A spirit of error, as the Targum, Septuagint, and Arabic versions; or of giddiness, as the Vulgate Latin: this he mingled in a cup for them, and poured it out, and gave them it to drink; and an intoxicating cup it was, such as men are made drunk with; to which the allusion is, as the last clause of the verse shows; so that the infatuation and want of wisdom in their counsels were from the Lord; who, because of the vain boasts of their wisdom in righteous judgment, gave them up to judicial blindness, stupidity, and folly: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof;
both in religious and civil affairs, leading them into superstition and idolatry, to which they were of old inclined and addicted, and forming such schemes and projects, and putting them upon such works, as were very detrimental to the nation. Some think this refers to the twelve tyrants, who disagreeing among themselves, being actuated by a perverse spirit, greatly distracted the people; though rather it may refer to the times of Necho, and to his project in cutting a canal for the bringing of the Nile to the Red sea before mentioned, in which he lost several thousands of men without accomplishing it; and of his predecessor, in besieging Ashdod twenty nine years ere he took it ^F23: as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit;
who is so very drunk, that his head is quite giddy, and cannot walk upright, but staggers as he goes, and vomits as he staggers, and falls down, and is rolled in it, as the Targum; just like such a man were the princes and governors of the Egyptian provinces.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Herodot. l. 2. c. 157, 158.

Isaías 19:14 In-Context

12 ¿Dónde están ahora aquellos tus prudentes? Que te digan ahora, o te hagan saber qué es lo que el SEÑOR de los ejércitos ha determinado sobre Egipto

13 Se han desvanecido los príncipes de Zoán; se han engañado los príncipes de Menfis; engañaron a Egipto las esquinas de sus familias

14 El SEÑOR mezcló espíritu de vahido en medio de él; e hicieron errar a Egipto en toda su obra, como desatina el borracho en su vómito

15 Y no aprovechará a Egipto cosa que haga la cabeza o la cola, la rama o el junco

16 En aquel día será Egipto como mujeres: porque se asombrará y temerá, en la presencia de la mano alta del SEÑOR de los ejércitos, que él ha de levantar sobre ellos