Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
KJV
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
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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,
Rev 17:2
but, as the Targum expresses it, with tribulation; with afflictions at the hand of God, and persecutions from men.
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