Isaiah 24:20
The earth will stagger like a drunken man and it will sway back and forth like a hut. 1 Its sin will be heavy on it and it will fall and never rise again. 1
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19The earth will be completely broken, the earth ripped apart; 1 the earth will be violently shaken. 1
Cross References
Genesis 41:31The abundance will not be remembered in the land because of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.
Psalms 107:27They swayed and staggered like drunkards 1 and were at their wits' end. 1
Isaiah 1:28Rebels and sinners will be crushed together, and those who abandon Yahweh will be done away with. 1
Isaiah 19:14Yahweh has mixed a spirit of distortion into her midst, 1 and they have led Egypt astray in all she does, like a drunk staggering in his vomit. 1
Isaiah 38:12My life is removed and carried away from me like a shepherd's tent; 1 I have rolled up my life like a weaver; you are cutting me off from the loom; 1 between day and night you are ending my life. 1
Jeremiah 4:24I looked at the mountains. Behold, they were trembling, and all the hills were shaking about.
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 →