Isaiah 51:21
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New International Version (©2011)
Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But now listen to this, you afflicted ones who sit in a drunken stupor, though not from drinking wine.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine:

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Therefore, please hear this, you afflicted, Who are drunk, but not with wine:

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So listen to this, afflicted and drunken one--but not with wine.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Now listen to this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine:

NET Bible (©2006)
So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Listen to this, you humble people who are drunk but not from wine.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

American King James Version
Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

American Standard Version
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:

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

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

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

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

World English Bible
Therefore hear now 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,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

51:17-23 God calls upon his people to mind the things that belong to their everlasting peace. Jerusalem had provoked God, and was made to taste the bitter fruits. Those who should have been her comforters, were their own tormentors. They have no patience by which to keep possesion of their own souls, nor any confidence in God's promise, by which to keep possession of its comfort. Thou art drunken, not as formerly, with the intoxicating cup of Babylon's idolatries, but with the cup of affliction. Know, then, the cause of God's people may for a time seem as lost, but God will protect it, by convincing the conscience, or confounding the projects, of those that strive against it. The oppressors required souls to be subjected to them, that every man should believe and worship as they would have them. But all they could gain by violence was, that people were brought to outward hypocritical conformity, for consciences cannot be forced.

Pulpit Commentary

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).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 sense; nor with the wine of the fornication of the whore of Rome; nor with idolatry, as the kings of the earth are said to be, Revelation 17:2 but, as the Targum expresses it, with tribulation; with afflictions at the hand of God, and persecutions from men.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

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

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The Cup of Wrath
…20Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God. 21Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 22Thus said your Lord the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:

Isaiah 29:9 Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.
Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger.
Isaiah 54:11 "Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with lapis lazuli.
Isaiah 63:6 I trampled the nations in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground."