The Meaning of Isaiah 51:21 Explained

Isaiah 51:21

KJV: Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

YLT: Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,

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

ASV: Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Isaiah 51:21 Mean?

Context Summary

Isaiah 51:12-23 - "the Captive Exile Shall Be Loosed"
During the Sepoy mutiny in India, when a number of English men and women were shut up in a quarter of Cawnpore, expecting a terrible death by assault or slow starvation, a torn page of the Bible, containing this passage, was found on the street pavement and was of unspeakable comfort. Oh, the blessedness of appropriating Isaiah 51:16! See Isaiah 49:7.
We are too apt to forget that God pleads the cause of His people, even when they have sinned and have reduced themselves to sore straits, Isaiah 51:17 and Isaiah 51:22. We think more of the earth than of the over-arching skies; of the fading grass than of the tree of Life; of man than of God. The near obscures the distant, and the flaring earth lights, the shine of the stars! Root yourself in God! Think of Him who sits at the right hand of the throne, the seat of resistless, ceaseless energy! Believe that God has placed Himself between you and all enemies and circumstances which threaten. To fear all day is impossible in face of these paragraphs. [source]

Chapter Summary: 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

What do the individual words in Isaiah 51:21 mean?

Therefore hear please this you afflicted and drunk but not with wine -
לָכֵ֛ן שִׁמְעִי־ נָ֥א זֹ֖את עֲנִיָּ֑ה וּשְׁכֻרַ֖ת וְלֹ֥א מִיָּֽיִן ס

שִׁמְעִי־  hear 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, feminine singular
Root: שָׁמַע 
Sense: to hear, listen to, obey.
נָ֥א  please 
Parse: Interjection
Root: נָא  
Sense: I (we) pray, now, please.
זֹ֖את  this 
Parse: Pronoun, feminine singular
Root: זׄאת  
Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, such.
עֲנִיָּ֑ה  you  afflicted 
Parse: Adjective, feminine singular
Root: עָנִי  
Sense: poor, afflicted, humble, wretched.
וּשְׁכֻרַ֖ת  and  drunk 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adjective, feminine singular construct
Root: שָׂכַר 
Sense: to be or become drunk or drunken, be intoxicated.
וְלֹ֥א  but  not 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
מִיָּֽיִן  with  wine 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular
Root: יַיִן  
Sense: wine.
ס    - 
Parse: Punctuation

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