Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
Ver. 11. Thou also shalt be drunken] sc. with the cup of the wine of God's wrath; Jer 25:27 thou shalt "drink, and be drunken, and spue and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you." This is that κοινος μεθη, dry drunkenness of them that are "drunk, but not with wine," Isaiah 51:21; of them that remember their affliction and their misery, the wormwood and the gall, Lamentations 3:19. If the saints sip sometimes of the top of God's cap, the wicked shall drink deep of it; yea, though it be eternity to the bottom.
Thou shalt be hid] Or, thou shalt lurk, either for fear of the enemy (who wast once above fear, and thine enemies below hope), or for shame of thine undone condition. See Rev 6:16 Luk 23:30 Hosea 10:8. Or, thou shalt vanish, and be brought to nothing; as if there never had been any such. Confer Obadiah 1:16. Nineveh nothing else now, saith one who had been there, but a sepulchre of herself, a little town of small trade, where the patriarch of the Nestorians keeps his seat at the devotion of the Turk.
Thou shalt also seek strength because of the enemy] Or, from the enemy; beg help of them, to whom thou wouldest once have scorned to be beholden; or of them against whom thou hast professed and practised open hostility.