Isaiah 51:21
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted,.... By Babylon, by antichrist and his followers; hear, for thy comfort, the following prophecy:
and drunken, but not with wine; not with wine in a literal…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
And drunken, but not with wine - Overcome and prostrate, but not under the influence of intoxicating drink. They were prostrate by the wrath of God.
God, having awoke for the comfort of his people, here calls upon them to awake, as afterwards, Isa 52:1. It is a call to awake not so much out of the sleep of sin (though that also is necessary in…