Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall be moved to and fro like a hut; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
19The earth is utterly broken, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Cross References
Genesis 41:31and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.
Psalms 107:27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
Isaiah 1:28But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
Isaiah 19:14The LORD hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her: and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
Isaiah 38:12Mine age is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have rolled up like a weaver my life; he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Jeremiah 4:24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved 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 →