Isaiah 51:21
New International Version
Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.

New Living Translation
But now listen to this, you afflicted ones who sit in a drunken stupor, though not from drinking wine.

English Standard Version
Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine:

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

King James Bible
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

New King James Version
Therefore please hear this, you afflicted, And drunk but not with wine.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, listen to this, you afflicted, Who are drunk, but not with wine:

NASB 1995
Therefore, please hear this, you afflicted, Who are drunk, but not with wine:

NASB 1977
Therefore, please hear this, you afflicted, Who are drunk, but not with wine:

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, now, listen to this, you afflicted, Who are drunk, but not with wine:

Amplified Bible
Therefore, now hear this, you who are afflicted, Who are drunk, but not with wine [but overwhelmed by the wrath of God].

Christian Standard Bible
So listen to this, suffering and drunken one—but not with wine.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So listen to this, afflicted and drunken one—but not with wine.

American Standard Version
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because of this, hear these things, afflicted ones who are drunk, not from wine

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Therefore hear, thou afflicted one, and drunken, but not with wine;

Contemporary English Version
You are in trouble and drunk, but not from wine. So pay close attention

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore hear this, thou poor little one, and thou that art drunk but no with wine.

English Revised Version
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Listen to this, you humble people who are drunk but not from wine.

Good News Translation
You suffering people of Jerusalem, you that stagger as though you were drunk,

International Standard Version
Now listen to this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine:

JPS Tanakh 1917
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, And drunken, but not with wine;

Literal Standard Version
Therefore, please hear this, | O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,

Majority Standard Bible
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

New American Bible
But now, hear this, afflicted one, drunk, but not with wine,

NET Bible
So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore hear this, you who are wounded, who are drunk, but not with wine:

New Heart English Bible
Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunk, but not with wine:

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

World English Bible
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,

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Context
The Cup of Wrath
20Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God. 21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine. 22Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.…

Cross References
Isaiah 29:9
Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

Isaiah 51:17
Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs--the cup that makes men stagger.

Isaiah 54:11
"O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Isaiah 63:6
I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground."


Treasury of Scripture

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Isaiah 51
1. An exhortation after the pattern of Abraham, to trust in Christ
3. By reason of his comfortable promises,
4. Of his righteous salvation
7. And man's mortality
9. Christ by his sanctified arm defends his from the fear of man
17. He bewails the afflictions of Jerusalem
21. And promises deliverance














(21) Drunken, but not with wine . . .--Same phrase as in Isaiah 29:9.

Verse 21. - Drunken, but not with wine (comp. Isaiah 29:9; and see above, ver. 17, which shows that the appearance of drunkenness had been produced by Jerusalem drinking the cup of God's wrath).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Therefore
לָכֵ֛ן (lā·ḵên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

now
נָ֥א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

hear
שִׁמְעִי־ (šim·‘î-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

this,
זֹ֖את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

you afflicted one,
עֲנִיָּ֑ה (‘ă·nî·yāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble

drunken,
וּשְׁכֻרַ֖ת (ū·šə·ḵu·raṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - feminine singular construct
Strong's 7937: To become tipsy, to satiate with a, stimulating drink, influence

but not
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

with wine.
מִיָּֽיִן׃ (mî·yā·yin)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3196: Wine, intoxication


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