Deu 29:19, Hos 12:8, Luk 12:19 | TSK | STEP | this curse. that he bless. though I walk. imagination. or, stubborness. to add.A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses. drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.

‏ Deuteronomy 29:19

this curse.

12; Ge 2:17

that he bless.

17:2; Nu 15:30,39; Ps 10:4-6,11; 49:18; 94:6,7; Pr 29:1

Jer 5:12,13; 7:3-11; 28:15-17; 44:16,17,27; Eze 13:16,22; Eph 5:6

though I walk.

Nu 15:30; Ec 11:9; Ro 1:21; 2Co 10:5; Eph 4:17

imagination. or, stubborness.

Jer 3:17; 7:24; *margins

to add.A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.

drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.