Isaiah 24:20
The earth staggers to and fro like a drunk, and sways this way and that like a shelter. The guilt of its rebelliousness weighs heavily on it, and it collapses—it won't rise again.
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In Context
19The earth is completely broken up; the earth is ripped apart, the earth is violently shaken.
21At that time the Lord will punish all the high heavenly beings and the kings of the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 41:31The time of plenty will be completely forgotten because the famine that follows it will be so terrible.
Psalms 107:27They staggered around, falling from side to side like drunks—all their seamanship skills were useless.
Isaiah 1:28But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who abandon the Lord will die.
Isaiah 19:14The Lord has mixed up a spirit of confusion for them to drink, making the Egyptians stagger around in everything they do, like a drunk slipping up on his own vomit.
Isaiah 38:12Like a shepherd's tent, the place where I live has been pulled up and taken away from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up the cloth of my life and cut it from the loom. Day and night you bring me to an end.
Jeremiah 4:24I looked at the mountains, and saw that they were shaking; all the hills were swaying 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 →