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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 29:9 - 29:9
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Stay - rather, “Be astounded”; expressing the stupid and amazed incredulity with which the Jews received Isaiah’s announcement.
wonder - The second imperative, as often (Isa 8:9), is a threat; the first is a simple declaration of a fact, “Be astounded, since you choose to be so, at the prophecy, soon you will be amazed at the sight of the actual event” [Maurer].
cry ... out ... cry - rather, “Be ye blinded (since you choose to be so, though the light shines all round you), and soon ye shall be blinded” in good earnest to your sorrow [Maurer], (Isa 6:9, Isa 6:10).
not with wine - but with spiritual paralysis (Isa 51:17, Isa 51:21).
ye ... they - The change from speaking to, to speaking of them, intimates that the prophet turns away from them to a greater distance, because of their stupid unbelief.