Isaías 29:9

9 Entonteceos, y entonteced; cegaos, y cegad; embriagaos, y no de vino; titubead, y no de sidra

Isaías 29:9 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 29:9

Stay yourselves, and wonder
Stop a while, pause a little, consider within yourselves the case and circumstances of these people, and wonder at their stupidity. Kimchi thinks these words were spoken in the times of Ahaz, with respect to the men of Judah; and so Aben Ezra says, they are directed to the men of Zion; and it is generally thought that they are spoken to the more religious and sober part of them; though, by the following verse ( Isaiah 29:10 ) , it appears that the case was general, and that the people to whom this address is made were as stupid as others: cry ye out, and cry;
or, "delight yourselves" ^F19, as in the margin; take your pleasure, indulge yourselves in carnal mirth, gratify your sensual appetite in rioting and wantonness, and then "cry" and lament, as you will have reason to do. Kimchi says, his father rendered the words, "awake yourselves, and awake others"; that is, from that deep sleep they were fallen into, afterwards mentioned: they are drunken, but not with wine;
not with that only, for otherwise many of them were given to drunkenness in a literal sense, ( Isaiah 28:7 ) but they were like drunken men, as stupid, senseless, and secure, though in the utmost danger: they stagger, but not with strong drink;
unsteady in their counsels and resolutions, in their principles and practices, and stumble in their goings.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (wevetvh) "oblectate vos", Cocceius; "delicias agunt", Junius & Tremellius; "deliciantur", Piscator.

Isaías 29:9 In-Context

7 Y será como sueño de visión nocturna la multitud de todos los gentiles que pelearán contra Ariel; y todos los que pelearán contra ella, y sus ingenios; y los que la pondrán en apretura

8 Y será como el que sueña que tiene hambre, y parece que come; mas cuando se despierta, su alma está vacía; y como el que sueña que tiene sed, y parece que bebe; mas cuando se despierta, se halla cansado, y su alma todavía sedienta; así será la multitud de todos los gentiles que pelearán contra el Monte de Sion

9 Entonteceos, y entonteced; cegaos, y cegad; embriagaos, y no de vino; titubead, y no de sidra

10 Porque el SEÑOR extendió sobre vosotros espíritu de sueño, y cerró vuestros ojos; cubrió de sueño vuestros profetas, y vuestros principales videntes

11 Y es a vosotros toda visión como palabras de libro sellado, el cual si dieren al que sabe leer, y le dijeren: Lee ahora esto; él dirá: No puedo, porque está sellado