9Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.


In Context

6 the Lord Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.

7 Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night-

8 as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.

9 Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.

10 The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).

11 For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say to him, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I can't; it is sealed."

Isaiah 29:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:9Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

29:9Be astonished, and wander, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

29:9Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:9Be astounded and astonished, blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

29:9Tarry ye and wonder, take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:9Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:9Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

29:9Tarry and wonder, look ye, yea, look, Be drunk, and not with wine, Stagger, and not with strong drink.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:9Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.