Psalms 78:65

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 44:23 : 23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
  • Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
  • Isa 42:13-14 : 13 The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war. 14 I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
  • Isa 51:9 : 9 Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
  • Ps 7:6 : 6 Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

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    5Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

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  • Isa 29:8-10
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    66His haters were turned back by his blows and shamed for ever.

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    5Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

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