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Deuteronomy 29:19

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this curse: Deuteronomy 29:12; Genesis 2:17

that he bless: Deuteronomy 17:2; Numbers 15:30, Numbers 15:39; Psalms 10:4-6, Psalms 10:11, Psalms 49:18, Psalms 94:6-7; Proverbs 29:1; Jeremiah 5:12-13, Jeremiah 7:3-11, Jeremiah 28:15-17, Jeremiah 44:16-17, Jeremiah 44:27; Ezekiel 13:16, Ezekiel 13:22; Ephesians 5:6

though I walk: Numbers 15:30; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Romans 1:21; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Ephesians 4:17

imagination: or, stubborness, Jeremiah 3:17, Jeremiah 7:24 *marg.

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

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