Isaiah 19:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Hath mingled

2 Thessalonians 2:11

As a

Jeremiah 48:26

General references

Isaiah 40:23

Bible References

Hath mingled

"And I will stir up {Egyptians} against {Egyptians}, and each one will fight against his brother and each one against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

For Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and he has covered your heads, the seers.

And you felt secure in your wickedness; you said, "{No one} sees me." Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I [am], and besides me [there is] no one."

And Yahweh said, 'Who will entice Ahab so that he will go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?' Then {this one was saying one thing and the other one was saying another}.

"Strength and sound wisdom [are] with him; [the] deceived and [the] deceiver [are] his.

For {each person} from the house of Israel, and from the alien who dwells as an alien in Israel, who separates himself {from following me} and brings up his idols into his heart and {places before himself} a stumbling block of his guilt, and [yet] he comes to the prophet to consult him concerning me, I Yahweh will answer him myself.

And because of this, God sends them {a powerful delusion} so that they will believe the lie,

As a

And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger [in the] rendering of a decision,

Be astonished and be amazed! Blind yourselves and be blinded! They are drunk but not [from] wine; they stagger but not [from] strong drink.

They grope [in] the dark {without} light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

For thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me, "Take this cup of the wine [of] wrath from my hand, and you must give it [to] all the nations to whom I [am] sending you to drink.

"Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against Yahweh, and let Moab wallow in his vomit. And he also will become a laughingstock.

General references

He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges.

Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.

because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding.

Where there is no guidance, a nation shall fall, but [there is] safety in an abundance of counsel.

the one who brings princes to nothing; he makes rulers of [the] earth like nothing.