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 the Egyptians one against another among themselves, so that one shall be ever against his brother and neighbour, yea one city against another, and one kingdom against another.

For the LORD shall give you a hard-sleeping spirit, and close your eyes. Your Prophets also, and heads which should see; them shall he cover.

For thou hast comforted thyself in thy deceitfulness, and hast said, "No man seeth me." Thine own wisdom and cunning hath deceived thee, in that thou hast said, "I am alone, and without me there is none."

And the LORD said, 'Who shall deceive Ahab that he may go and be slain at Ramoth in Gilead?' And one said on this manner and another on that.

With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver and him that is deceived.

For every man, whether he be of the house of Israel, or a stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which departeth from me, and carrieth idols in his heart, purposing to go still stumbling in his own wickedness, and cometh to a Prophet, for to ask counsel at me through him: unto that man will I the LORD give answer, by mine own self.

And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe lies:

As a

But they go wrong by the reason of wine, they fall and stagger because of strong drink. Yea even the priests and prophets themselves go amiss, they are drunken with wine, and weak brained through strong drink. They fail in prophesying, and stumble in judgment.

Ponder these things once in your mind, and wonder: Blinded are they themselves, and the blind guides of others; they are drunken, but not with wine; they are unstable, but not through strong drink.

and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.

"For thus hath the LORD God of Israel spoken unto me, 'Take this wine cup of indignation from my hand, that thou mayest cause all the people, to whom I send thee, for to drink of it:

Make her drunken, for she magnified herself above the LORD, that men may clap their hands at her vomit, and that she also may be laughed into scorn.

General references

He carrieth away the wise men, as it were a spoil, and bringeth the judges out of their wits.

Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

And that because God hath taken wisdom from her, and hath not given her understanding.

Where no good counsel is, there the people decay; but whereas are many that can give counsel, there is wealth.

That he bringeth princes to nothing, and the judges of the earth to dust;