Psalm 60:3

Verse 3. Thou hast given us to drink infatuation, or bewilderment, as men drink wine. So Hupfeld explains the constructions, referring to Psalms 80:5 , "Thou hast made them feed upon weeping like bread;" 1 Kings 22:27 , "Feed him with affliction as bread, and with affliction as water" cxl mymw; Isaiah 30:20 . But the apposition is capable of being explained in another way, for the second noun may in fact be a predicate further defining the first: "Thou hast given us wine to drink which is (not wine, but) bewilderment." J. J. Stewart Perowne.

Verse 3. The wine of astonishment. "Intoxicating wine." Hebrew, "Wine of staggering," that is, which causeth staggering, or, in other words, intoxicating. Some render, "wine of stupor," or stupefying. Symmachus, "wine of agitation," and this sense I have adopted which is also that of the Syriac. Benjamin Boothroyd.

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

Verse 3. That God does afflict his people severely, and that he has good reason for the same.

Verse 3. The wine of astonishment. A purgative, a tonic. Astonishing sin followed by astonishing chastisements, discoveries of corruption, of the spirituality of the law, of the terrors of divine wrath, and by astonishing depressions, temptations, and conflicts.