Psalms 107:27
“They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.”
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Counter-Arguments
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Cross-References
“They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.”
“They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.”
“Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.”
“The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.”
“And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.”