Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock. And the transgression of it shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
Cross References
Genesis 41:31And the plenty shall not be known in the land because of that famine which follows, for it shall be very grievous.
Psalms 107:27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Isaiah 1:28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake LORD shall be consumed.
Isaiah 19:14LORD has mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her, and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah 38:12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night thou will make an end of me.
Jeremiah 4:24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:17-23
Encouraging Prospects; Degeneracy Predicted. ( b. c. 718.) 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of… Read the whole commentary →