Psalm 78:65 {77:65}
Good News Translation
At last the Lord woke up as though from sleep; he was like a strong man excited by wine.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting because of wine.

Contemporary English Version
Finally the Lord woke up, like a soldier startled from a drunken sleep.

New American Bible
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior shouting from the effects of wine.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

then

Psalm 7:6 Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:

Psalm 44:23 Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.

Isaiah 51:9 Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as in the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the proud one, and wounded the dragon?

and like

Isaiah 42:13,14 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies. . . .

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
64Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn. 65And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.66And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.…
Cross References
Psalm 44:23
Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.

Psalm 73:20
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Isaiah 42:13
The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies.

Zechariah 2:13
Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord: for he is risen up out of his holy habitation.

Zechariah 9:15
The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar.

Psalm 78:64
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