Isaiah 24:20
The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
Cross References
Genesis 41:31The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.
Psalms 107:27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
Isaiah 1:28But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
Isaiah 19:14The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
Isaiah 38:12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
Jeremiah 4:24I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
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 →