“Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.”
Isaiah 29:9 (BSB)
Context Reading
7All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel — even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her — will be like a dream, like a vision in the night, 8as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion. 9Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink. 10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers. 11And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”