Isaiah 29:9-10

Isaiah 29:9-10. Stay yourselves, and wonder— Or, Stay, &c.—Make blind and be ye blind; they are drunken, &c. The prophet here proceeds to describe the spiritual judgment; the first gradation of which is contained in Isaiah 29:9-12. The two former expressing this judgment both mystically and properly; the two latter the unhappy consequence of it. Upon the whole, this period describes the same judgment with that mentioned, chap. Isaiah 6:9, &c. Isaiah 8:14-15. See also chap. Isaiah 28:7-8. Vitringa supposes that the event which the people are called upon to stay and wonder at, is the manifestation of the kingdom of Christ; their rejection whereof should be attended with the spiritual blindness and hardness of heart here predicted, and which we learn sufficiently to have been the case from the Gospel. See Vitringa.