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 fell, and not rise again.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 41:31After which shall follow other seven years of so great scacity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,
Psalms 107:27They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
Isaiah 1:28And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.
Isaiah 19:14The 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 38:12My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he out me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.
Jeremiah 4:24I looked upon the mountains, and behold they trembled: and all the hills were troubled.
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 →