Isa 51:17, 21-22, 63:6, Jer 25:15, 49:12 | JFB | STEP | 17. Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, &c.— ( ). drunk —Jehovah's wrath is compared to an intoxicating draught because it confounds the sufferer under it, and makes him fall ( ); ("poured out without mixture"; rather, "the pure wine juice mixed with intoxicating drugs"). of trembling —which produced trembling or intoxication. wrung . . . out —drained the last drop out; the dregs were the sediments from various substances, as honey, dates, and drugs, put into the wine to increase the strength and sweetness.

Isaiah 51:17

17. Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, &c.— (Isa 52:1).

drunk—Jehovah's wrath is compared to an intoxicating draught because it confounds the sufferer under it, and makes him fall (Job 21:20; Ps 60:3; 75:8; Jer 25:15, 16; 49:12; Zec 12:2; Re 14:10); ("poured out without mixture"; rather, "the pure wine juice mixed with intoxicating drugs").

of trembling—which produced trembling or intoxication.

wrung . . . out—drained the last drop out; the dregs were the sediments from various substances, as honey, dates, and drugs, put into the wine to increase the strength and sweetness.

Isaiah 51:21-22

21. drunken . . . not with wine— (Isa 29:9; compare Isa 51:17, 20, here; La 3:15).

22. pleadeth . . . cause— (Ps 35:1; Jer 50:34; Mic 7:9).

no more drink it— (Isa 54:7-9). This cannot apply to Israel after the return from Babylon, but only to them after their final restoration.

Isaiah 63:6

6. Rather, preterites, "I trod down . . . made them drunk." The same image occurs Isa 51:17, 21-23; Ps 75:8; Jer 25:26, 27.

will bring down . . . strength to . . . earth—rather, "I spilled their life-blood (the same Hebrew words as in Isa 63:3) on the earth" [LOWTH and Septuagint].

Jeremiah 25:15

15. wine cup—Compare Jer 13:12, 13, as to this image, to express stupefying judgments; also Jer 49:12; 51:7. Jeremiah often embodies the imagery of Isaiah in his prophecies (La 4:21; Isa 51:17-22; Re 16:19; 18:6). The wine cup was not literally given by Jeremiah to the representatives of the different nations; but only in symbolical vision.

Jeremiah 49:12

12. (Compare Jer 25:15, 16, 29).

they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup—the Jews to whom, by virtue of the covenant relation, it did not belong to drink the cup. It might have been expected that they would be spared. He regards not the merits of the Jews, for they were as bad or worse than others: but the grace and adoption of God; it is just and natural ("judgment") that God should pardon His sons sooner than aliens [CALVIN].