Isaiah 24:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

It staggers and shakes like a drunkard or a hut in a storm. It is burdened down with sin; the earth will fall, never again to get up.

Cross References

Genesis 41:31

The famine will be so bad that no one will remember that once there had been plenty.

Job 12:25

lost in the dark, staggering like someone drunk.

Psalm 107:27

You staggered like drunkards and gave up all hope.

Psalm 38:4

are so heavy that I am crushed.

Isaiah 1:28

But those rebellious sinners who turn against me, the LORD, will all disappear.

Isaiah 1:8

Enemies surround Jerusalem, alone like a hut in a vineyard or in a cucumber field.

Isaiah 19:14

The LORD has confused Egypt; its leaders have made it stagger and vomit like a drunkard.

Isaiah 24:1

The LORD is going to twist the earth out of shape and turn it into a desert. Everyone will be scattered,

Isaiah 28:7

Priests and prophets stumble because they are drunk. Their minds are too confused to receive God's messages or give honest decisions.

Isaiah 29:9

Be shocked and stunned, you prophets! Refuse to see. Get drunk and stagger, but not from wine.

Isaiah 38:12

My life was taken from me like the tent that a shepherd pulls up and moves. You cut me off like thread from a weaver's loom; you make a wreck of me day and night.

Isaiah 43:27

Your earliest ancestor and all your leaders rebelled against me.

Isaiah 66:24

My people will go out and look at the dead bodies of those who turned against me. The worms there never die, the fire never stops burning, and the sight of those bodies will be disgusting to everyone.

Jeremiah 25:27

The LORD had said I must tell each king, “The LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, commands you to drink from this cup that is full of the wine of his anger. It will make you so drunk that you will vomit. And when the LORD sends war against the nations, you will be completely defeated.”

Jeremiah 4:24

The mountains were shaking;

Jeremiah 51:29

The earth twists and turns in torment, because I have decided to make Babylonia a desert where no one can live, and I won't change my mind.

Jeremiah 8:4

The LORD said: People of Jerusalem, when you stumble and fall, you get back up, and if you take a wrong road, you turn round and go back.

Lamentations 1:14

You have tied my sins around my neck, and they weigh so heavily that my strength is gone. You have put me in the power of enemies too strong for me.

Daniel 11:19

He will retreat to his fortresses in his own country, but on the way he will be defeated and never again be seen.

Amos 8:14

You made promises in the name of Ashimah, the goddess of Samaria. And you made vows in my name at the shrines of Dan and Beersheba. But you will fall and never get up.

Nahum 1:5

At the sight of the LORD, mountains and hills tremble and melt; the earth and its people shudder and shake.

Revelation 18:21

A powerful angel then picked up a huge stone and threw it into the sea. The angel said, “This is how the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to rise again.