Isaiah 19:14

The Lord hath mingled -The wordמסךmâsak, “to mingle,” is used commonly to denote the act of mixing spices with wine to make it more intoxicatingProverbs 9:2,Proverbs 9:5;Isaiah 5:22. Here it means that Yahweh has poured out into the midst of them a spirit of giddiness; that is, has produced consternation among them. National commotions and calamities are often thus traced to the overruling providence of God (see the note atIsaiah 19:2; compareIsaiah 10:5-6). A perverse spirit -Hebrew, ‘A spirit of perverseness.’ The word rendered ‘perverse’ is derived fromעוה‛âvâh, “to be crooked or perverted.” Here it means, that their counsels were unwise, land such as tended to error and ruin.