SEV Biblia, Chapter 29:19
y sea que , cuando el tal oyere las palabras de esta maldición, él se bendiga en su corazón, diciendo: Tendré paz, aunque ande según el pensamiento de mi corazón, para añadir la embriaguez a la sed.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:19
Verse 19. To add drunkenness to thirst] A proverbial expression denoting the utmost indulgence in all sensual gratifications.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. And it cometh to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse , etc.] That is, the man before compared to a root bearing bitter herbs, when he should hear the curses pronounced by the law against such persons as himself: that he bless himself in his heart ; inwardly pronounce himself blessed, thinking himself secure from the curse of the law, and flattering himself it will never reach him nor come upon him: saying, I shall have peace ; all happiness and prosperity, in soul, body, and estate; inward peace of mind now, and eternal peace hereafter: though I walk in the imagination of my heart ; in worshipping idols which he vainly and wickedly imagined to be gods; to the worship of which his wicked heart prompted him, and he was resolutely and stubbornly bent upon, and in which he continued: to add drunkenness to thirst ; as a thirsty man to quench his thirst drinks, and adds to that, or drinks yet more and more until he is drunken; so a man inclined to idolatry, that has a secret desire after it, thirsts after such stolen or forbidden waters, and drinks of them, adds thereunto, drinks again and again until he is drunk with the wine of fornication, or idolatry, as it is called ( Revelation 17:2); so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan understand the words of adding sin to sin, particularly of adding sins of ignorance to pride, or to presumptuous ones. Wicked men, deceivers and deceived, always grow worse and worse, increasing to more ungodliness, and yet promise themselves peace and impunity, ( 1 Thessalonians 5:3).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-21 - The national covenant made with Israel, not only typified the covenan of grace made with true believers, but also represented the outwar dispensation of the gospel. Those who have been enabled to consent to the Lord's new covenant of mercy and grace in Jesus Christ, and to giv up themselves to be his people, should embrace every opportunity of renewing their open profession of relation to him, and their obligatio to him, as the God of salvation, walking according thereto. The sinne is described as one whose heart turns away from his God; there the mischief begins, in the evil heart of unbelief, which inclines men to depart from the living God to dead idols. Even to this sin men are no tempted, when drawn aside by their own lusts and fancies. Such men ar roots that bear gall and wormwood. They are weeds which, if let alone overspread the whole field. Satan may for a time disguise this bitte morsel, so that thou shalt not have the natural taste of it, but at the last day, if not before, the true taste shall be discerned. Notice the sinner's security in sin. Though he hears the words of the curse, ye even then he thinks himself safe from the wrath of God. There is scarcely a threatening in all the book of God more dreadful than this Oh that presumptuous sinners would read it, and tremble! for it is real declaration of the wrath of God, against ungodliness an unrighteousness of man.
Original Hebrew
והיה 1961 בשׁמעו 8085 את 853 דברי 1697 האלה 423 הזאת 2063 והתברך 1288 בלבבו 3824 לאמר 559 שׁלום 7965 יהיה 1961 לי כי 3588 בשׁררות 8307 לבי 3820 אלך 1980 למען 4616 ספות 5595 הרוה 7302 את 853 הצמאה׃ 6771
