Isaiah 24:20
It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
19the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed.
21And God shall bring his hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 41:31And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of the famine that shall be after this, for it shall be very grievous.
Isaiah 1:28And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be utterly consumed.
Isaiah 19:14For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.
Isaiah 38:12My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver’s web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread.
Jeremiah 4:24I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion.
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 →