Isaiah 24:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.

Cross References

Genesis 41:31

And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

Job 12:25

They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

Psalm 107:27

They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

Psalm 38:4

For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

Isaiah 1:28

But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

Isaiah 24:1

See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

Isaiah 28:7

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

Isaiah 29:9

Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.

Isaiah 38:12

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

Isaiah 66:24

And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.

Jeremiah 25:27

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Jeremiah 4:24

Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.

Jeremiah 51:29

And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.

Jeremiah 8:4

Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?

Lamentations 1:14

A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

Daniel 11:19

Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again.

Amos 8:14

Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

Revelation 18:21

And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.