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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 29:9

Stay yourselves and wonder, stopping in foolish astonishment and unbelieving amazement; cry ye out and cry, rather, "blind yourselves and become blind," said of those who deliberately harden themselves against the influence of the joyful message brought to their attention; they are drunken, but not with wine, a spiritual paralysis having taken hold upon them; they stagger, but not with strong drink, their intoxication being due to their spiritual stupidity. And since they were thus closing their hearts against the influence of the Lord, He would punish them with that same stupidity which they were cultivating.

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See also Isaiah 29:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 29:9. _STAY YOURSELVES, AND WONDER_] התמהמהו _hithmahmehu, go on_ _what-what-whatting_, in a state of mental indetermination, till the overflowing scourge take you away. Psalms 119:60....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    STAY YOURSELVES - Thus far the prophet had given a description of the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib, and of his sudden overthrow. He now turns to the Jews, and reproves their stupidity, formality,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. The people's condition:...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The people are stupefied, for Yahweh has drenched their senses with a trance-slumber (Genesis 2:21 *). He has shut their eyes and muffled their heads. All alike fail to understand the prophetic vision...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. STRONG DRINK. Hebrew. _shekar._ App-27....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The people meet their doom in a state of spiritual stupor, unobservant of Jehovah's work, and heedless of the warnings given to them....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Stay yourselves, and wonder_ Rather (as R.V. marg.), BE YE AMAZED AND WONDER. The first verb is of uncertain derivation. Probably both express the idea of astonishment. Cheyne (_Comm_.) rendered: "as...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 29:1-14. The announcement of Jehovah's wonderful purpose regarding Jerusalem, and its reception on the part of the people Under the second "Woe" (Isaiah 29:1) are grouped two oracles, which ma...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    STAY YOURSELVES, AND WONDER— Or, _Stay,_ &c._—Make blind and be ye blind; they are drunken,_ &c. The prophet here proceeds to describe the _spiritual judgment;_ the first gradation of which is contain...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. SULLENNESS TEXT: Isaiah 29:9-16 9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Jehovah hath poured...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. STAY YOURSELVES - `Stand in astonishment:' Hebrew, hithmahmehu-litera...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    29:9 blind (e-5) blind! (e-9) Or 'infatuate,' see ch. 6.10....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WARNINGS TO JUDAH These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Isaiah only pretends to speak seriously. He does not actually want the people to be stupid. He wants them to realise the effects of their stupid behaviour. The women in Jerusalem reply here and in 6:...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 29 THE FATE OF *JERUSALEM V1 *Woe to *Jerusalem, the city of David! It will not matt...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    STAY YOURSELVES... — Better, _Astonish yourselves._ We can perhaps best understand the words by picturing to ourselves the prophet as preaching or reciting the previous prediction to his disciples and...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִתְמַהְמְה֣וּ וּ תְמָ֔הוּ הִשְׁתַּֽעַשְׁע֖וּ וָ שֹׁ֑עוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (h) Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. (h) Muse on this a long as ye like, yet you will find nothing but opp...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Be, &c. Though God spared the city, for the sake of the good, He will not fail to punish scoffers, in due time, as He now declares. (Haydock) --- Drunkenness. You shall suffer for your crimes, (chap....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here are the same, or similar denunciations, as have been before noticed. God's judgments for men's rebellion. And what makes the whole most awful, is, that those judgments and punishments remain unsa...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _JERUSALEM’S IMPENDING HUMILIATION AND DELIVERANCE_ ‘Woe to Ariel,’ etc. Isaiah 29:1 I. THE PROPHET SETS FORTH IN Isaiah 29:1 THE THEME OF HIS DISCOURSE.—For he announces to Ariel, i.e. to the city...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._Tarry and wonder. _Isaiah follows out the same subject, and attacks more keenly the gross stupidity of the people. Instead of “tarry,” some render the term, “Be amazed;” but the view which I prefer...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    STAY YOURSELVES, AND WONDER,.... Stop a while, pause a little, consider within yourselves the case and circumstances of these people, and wonder at their stupidity. Kimchi thinks these words were spok...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. Ver. 9. _Stay yourselves, and wonder._] _Sistite gradum,_ stand still,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Stay yourselves and wonder_ The prophet, having described the temporal judgment coming on the Jews, (see the contents of the chapter,) proceeds now to predict the spiritual one, the first gradation o...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CRY YE OUT, AND CRY: Or, take your pleasure and riot...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-16 The security of sinners in sinful ways, is cause for lamentation and wonder. The learned men, through prejudice, said that the Divine prophecies were obscure; and the poor urged their want of le...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    STAY YOURSELVES, AND WONDER; pause upon it, and you will see cause to wonder at the stupidity of this people, of which he is now about to speak. He directeth his speech, either to the religious part o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 29:9 Pause H4102 (H8697) wonder H8539 (H8798) yourselves H8173 (H8697) blind H8173 (H8798) drunk...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE UNBELIEVING RESPONSE OF THE MAJORITY TO GOD (ISAIAH 29:9). There are at least two ways of looking at this passage. One is to see it as Isaiah's words prior to God's amazing deliverance, seeking to...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The blessing after the final deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for _El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Stay yourselves, and wonder, they are drunken, but not with wine_ SPIRITUAL DRUNKENNESS By spiritual drunkenness (Isaiah 29:9) we are probably to understand unsteadiness of conduct and a want of sp...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, an...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is one of the names for Jerusalem. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 13:40; Acts 13:41; Habakkuk 1:5; Isaiah 1:2; Isaiah 19:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wonder — At the stupidity of this people. Cry — Cry out again and again through astonishment. They stagger — With giddiness or stupidity, which makes them like drunken men, insensible of their danger....

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