Deu 29:19, Hos 12:8, Luk 12:19 | TSK | STEP | this curse. that he bless. though I walk. imagination. or, stubborness. to add.A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses. drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.

Deuteronomy 29:19

this curse.

12; Ge 2:17

that he bless.

17:2; Nu 15:30,39; Ps 10:4-6,11; 49:18; 94:6,7; Pr 29:1

Jer 5:12,13; 7:3-11; 28:15-17; 44:16,17,27; Eze 13:16,22; Eph 5:6

though I walk.

Nu 15:30; Ec 11:9; Ro 1:21; 2Co 10:5; Eph 4:17

imagination. or, stubborness.

Jer 3:17; 7:24; *margins

to add.A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.

drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.