Psalm 107:27 {106:27}
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They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

stagger

Job 12:24 He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.

Isaiah 19:14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.

Isaiah 29:9 Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.

are at their wit's end.

Job 37:20 Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.

Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.

Acts 27:15-20 And when the ship was caught and could not bear up against the wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven. . . .

Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
26They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils. 27They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.28And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.…
Cross References
Job 12:25
They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

Psalm 107:28
And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.

Isaiah 24:20
With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Lexicon
They reeled
יָח֣וֹגּוּ (yā·ḥō·w·gū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2287: To make a pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim feast

and staggered
וְ֭יָנוּעוּ (wə·yā·nū·‘ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5128: To quiver, wave, waver, tremble, totter

like drunkards,
כַּשִּׁכּ֑וֹר (kaš·šik·kō·wr)
Preposition-k, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7910: Intoxicated, as a, state, a habit

and all
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

their skill
חָ֝כְמָתָ֗ם (ḥā·ḵə·mā·ṯām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2451: Wisdom

was useless.
תִּתְבַּלָּֽע׃ (tiṯ·bal·lā‘)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf


Additional Translations
They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits end.

They are troubled, they stagger as a drunkard, and all their wisdom is swallowed up.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.
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