Isaiah 29:9

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Cross-reference

Isaiah 29:14 continues the same judgment: God hides wisdom and discernment, fulfilling the blindness announced in verse 9.

Isaiah 28:7 Contrast

Isaiah 28:7 gives the literal counterpart: priests and prophets stagger from wine, while here staggering is spiritual blindness.

Isaiah 51:21 repeats nearly the same phrase 'drunk, but not with wine,' describing Jerusalem's affliction.

Isaiah 51:22 resolves the metaphor; God promises to take away the cup of reeling from Jerusalem's hand.

Isaiah 24:20 applies the same staggering-like-drunk metaphor to the earth under judgment for its transgression.

In Isaiah 19:14, God sends a spirit of distortion causing Egypt to stagger in counsel — the same divine judgment that makes them reel.

Jeremiah 2:12 echoes the same call to be appalled, here addressing heaven over Israel's apostasy — reinforcing the theme of stunned response to sin.

Habakkuk 1:5 also calls to 'wonder and be astounded' at God's coming work — a parallel prophetic formula for judgment.

Jeremiah 13:13 has God filling Jerusalem with drunkenness (literal wine) — same judgment metaphor but with actual drink, contrasting 'not with wine'.

Jeremiah 48:26 commands making Moab drunk as judgment — the same divine drunkenness metaphor applied to a foreign nation.

Jeremiah 23:9 depicts prophets staggering as if drunk from the Lord's presence — a similar spiritual intoxication.

Nahum 3:11 Parallel

In Nahum 3:11, Nineveh's drunkenness mirrors the staggering blindness here — both use intoxication as a metaphor for judgment.

Jeremiah 25:27 has all nations drink the cup of wrath and stagger — judgment imagery, but applied universally.

Jeremiah 51:7 calls Babylon a golden cup that made the earth drunk — another judgment metaphor like the staggering here.

Lamentations 4:21 says Edom will become drunk and uncovered as judgment — same cup of wrath motif.

In 2 Thessalonians 2:11, God sends a strong delusion — similar to the divinely caused blindness here, though distinct contexts.