Isaiah 24:20
Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to rise.
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Genesis 41:31and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it [is] very grievous.
Psalms 107:27They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.
Isaiah 1:28And the destruction of transgressors and sinners [is] together, And those forsaking Jehovah are consumed.
Isaiah 19:14Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.
Isaiah 38:12My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
Jeremiah 4:24I have looked [to] the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.
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 →