...they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be healed." ISA. xxix. 10. — " Tfie Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes : the prophets hath he covered." K/EK. xiv. 9. — " / the Lord have deceived that prophet." 2 THESS. ii. 11. —...

...intended suddenly to disappoint their hopes, and send them away empty and confounded. W. Lowth. 9. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas y ; &c.] The Prophet upbraids the Jews for their carelessness and stupidity, and compares them to men...

...have been as in a stupor. They stumble on in the dark, unmindful of his words, and so it follows, " Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry !...with wine; They stagger, but not with strong drink." The reason is alleged — " For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath...

...have deceived that Prophet, and I will stretch out My hand upon him, and destroy him :" and Isaiah, " The LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes" (see Isa. xxix.) ; and in the Gospels these expressions are often repeated in the same form from the...

...strong drink. New 'Translation. 0. Stand astonished, and wonder ! Stare, and be blinded with amazement ! They are drunken — but not with wine ; They stagger — but not with strong drink. 9. Stay yourselves. Thus far the prophet had given a description of the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib,...

...filled with new wine." " Stay yourselves, and wonder ; cry out and cry : ye say," says the prophet, " They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink." If it be the wine of the Spirit of God which thus flushes, with its per-fervid energy, the souls of...

...period of great inattention and indifference to the sealed book of God — the prophetical Scriptures. "Stay yourselves and wonder, cry ye out and cry :...closed your eyes.: the prophets and your rulers, the eeers hath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed,...

...soul hath appetite : so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry :...with wine ; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes : the...

...of no understanding : therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them. — Isa. xxvii. 11. The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep ; and hath closed your eyes. &c. and the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, &c. therefore,...

...grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man." In Is. xxix. 9, " They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink." And so in Is. li. 21, 22, " O thou afflicted and drunken, but not with wine. — Behold I have taken...