Isaiah 24:20

Modern English Version

The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard, and it totters like a shack, and its transgression is heavy upon it, and it shall fall, never to rise again.

Cross References

Genesis 41:31

The abundance will be unknown in the land because of the famine following, for it will be very severe.

Job 12:25

They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger like a drunk man.

Psalm 107:27

They reeled to and fro and staggered like a drunken man, and were at their wits’ end.

Psalm 38:4

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Isaiah 1:28

But the destruction of the transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

Isaiah 1:8

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in her; so they have caused Egypt to err in her every work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants abroad.

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine and stagger from strong drink; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; they err while having visions, they stumble when rendering judgment.

Isaiah 29:9

Be delayed and wait, blind yourselves and be blind. They are drunk, but not with wine. They stagger, but not with strong drink.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is pulled up and removed from me as a shepherd’s tent; I rolled up my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; from day even to night You make an end of me.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against Me.

Isaiah 66:24

And they shall go forth and look on the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For neither shall their worm die nor shall their fire be quenched. And they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

Jeremiah 25:27

Therefore you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink and be drunk and spew and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.

Jeremiah 4:24

I looked on the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.

Jeremiah 51:29

So the land trembles and sorrows, for the purposes of the Lord will be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 8:4

Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Do men fall and not arise? Do they turn away and not repent?

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions was bound; by His hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck. He made my strength fail; the Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.

Daniel 11:19

Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but shall stumble and fall and not be found any more.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria, and say, “By the life of your god, O Dan,” and, “By the life of the way of Beer-sheba” — they shall fall and never rise again.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt; the land rises up before Him, the earth and everything that dwells on it.

Revelation 18:21

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying: “With such violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more.