Isaiah 24:20
The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and vibrateth like a watch-hut; and heavily lieth upon it its transgression; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
19Crushed entirely is the earth, split in pieces is the earth, shaken to its centre is the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 41:31And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following it; for it shall be very grievous.
Psalms 107:27They would reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their wisdom was exhausted.
Isaiah 1:28But destruction shall come over transgressors and sinners together, and those that forsake the Lord shall perish.
Isaiah 19:14The Lord hath poured out in the midst thereof a spirit of perverseness: and they have led Egypt astray in all its work, as a drunkard reeleth astray in his vomit.
Isaiah 38:12My dwelling is broken down, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off, like a weaver, my life; with pining sickness will he snatch me away: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me.
Jeremiah 4:24I look at the mountains, and, lo, they tremble, and all the hills are moved.
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 →