Verse 15. .{ ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER HE~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER HE~} { ~HEBREW LETTER TSADI~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER BET~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER TAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER GIMEL~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN~} { ~HEBREW LETTER AYIN~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER LAMED~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER HE~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM~} { ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER KAF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER LAMED~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER KAF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER BET~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER SHIN~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER BET~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER NUN~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~} { ~HEBREW LETTER QOF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER LAMED~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER AYIN~} { ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER SHIN~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER TAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER HE~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER KAF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN~} { ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER LAMED~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER KAF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER RESH~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER QOF~} { ~HEBREW LETTER KAF~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER TAV~} { ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER BET~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER HET~}
_And the Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar._
To take these expressions in the literal sense, as promising to man the grossest of sensual indulgences, would surely be a strange misconstruction of prophetic language; { ~HEBREW LETTER HE~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} (or { ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER MEM~}{ ~HEBREW LETTER HE~}) which is rendered, _and make a noise_, is not preceded by the connective { ~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} _and_; it may, therefore, be simply the personal pronoun _they_, being the nominative to the verb _drink_; _they shall drink as of wine_, &c. Who is intended by the pronoun _they_, if at all doubtful here, becomes sufficiently clear in the next verse, where it is repeated in a manner that leaves no ambiguity, at least as far as concerns the Gentiles.