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Isaiah 24:20

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a hut. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.

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The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of confusion. The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.


Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As your god lives, Dan,’ or, ‘As the way  , of Beer-sheba lives’   – they will fall, never to rise again.


He will turn his attention back to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble, fall,  and be no more.


Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk,  but not with wine; they stagger,  but not with beer.


Then a mighty angel  picked up a stone like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, In this way, Babylon the great city will be thrown down violently and never be found again.


My transgressions have been formed into a yoke,  ,, fastened together by his hand; they have been placed on my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand.


‘Then you are to say to them, “This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink,  get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.”


‘You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says: Do people fall and not get up again? If they turn away, do they not return?


Your first father sinned, and your mediators have rebelled against me.


My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; he cuts me off from the loom. By nightfall  you make an end of me.


At the same time both rebels and sinners will be broken, and those who abandon the  Lord will perish.


Daughter Zion  is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.


They grope around in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like a drunkard.


Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:


Even these stagger because of wine and stumble under the influence of beer: Priest and prophet stagger because of beer. They are confused by wine. They stumble because of beer. They are muddled in their visions. They stumble in their judgements.


‘As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me;  for their worm  will never die, their fire will never go out,  and they will be a horror to all humanity.’


The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt; the earth trembles  , at his presence – the world and all who live in it.


The abundance in the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows it, for the famine will be very severe.


I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills shook.


The earth quakes  and trembles because the Lord’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.





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