Isaiah 24:20
The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.
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19The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.
Cross References
Genesis 41:31And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.
Psalms 107:27They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.
Isaiah 1:28But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.
Isaiah 19:14The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.
Isaiah 38:12My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
Jeremiah 4:24Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.
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 →