Isaiah 19:14

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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

I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian. Brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

Jehovah has made you drowsy. He shut your eyes in a deep sleep you prophets and visionaries. He overwhelmed your leaders.

You felt sure of yourself in your evil. You thought that no one could see you. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. Then you said to yourself: 'I am God! There is no one else like me.'

Jehovah asked: Who will deceive Ahab so that he will go and be killed at Ramoth? Some of the angels said one thing, and others said something else,

To him belong strength and victory. Both deceived and deceivers are his.

Suppose an Israelite or a foreigner who lives in Israel deserts me by devoting himself to idols and by allowing himself to sin. If he goes to a prophet to ask for my help, I, Jehovah, will give him an answer.

So God dispatches the power of deceit (error) to work in them so that they are allowed to believe what is false.

As a

These also stagger from wine and reel from beer. Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine. They reel from beer. They stagger when seeing visions. They stumble when rendering decisions.

Stand still and wonder. Refuse to see and be blind. Get drunk and stagger, but not from wine.

They grope in darkness without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

This is what Jehovah the God of Israel said to me: 'Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my fury, and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.

Jehovah said: 'Make Moab drunk, because it has rebelled against me. Moab will roll in its own vomit and people will laugh.

General references

He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.

You close their minds and hearts so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them.

This is because God has made her forget wisdom. He has not given her a share of understanding.

The people fall where there is no counsel. Yes, the people fall but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

He brings princes to nothing and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.