Isaiah 24:20

New Century Version

The earth will stumble around like someone who is drunk; it will shake like a hut in a storm. Its sin is like a heavy weight on its back; it will fall and never rise again.

Cross References

Genesis 41:31

People will forget what it was like to have plenty of food, because the hunger that follows will be so great.

Job 12:25

They feel around in darkness with no light; he makes them stumble like drunks.

Psalm 107:27

They stumbled and fell like people who were drunk. They did not know what to do.

Psalm 38:4

My guilt has overwhelmed me; like a load it weighs me down.

Isaiah 1:28

But sinners and those who turn against him will be destroyed; those who have left the Lord will die.

Isaiah 1:8

Jerusalem is left alone like an empty shelter in a vineyard, like a hut left in a field of melons, like a city surrounded by enemies.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has made the leaders confused. They have led Egypt to wander in the wrong ways, like drunk people stumbling in their own vomit.

Isaiah 24:1

Look! The Lord will destroy the earth and leave it empty; he will ruin the surface of the land and scatter its people.

Isaiah 28:7

But now those leaders are drunk with wine; they stumble from drinking too much beer. The priests and prophets are drunk with beer and are filled with wine. They stumble from too much beer. The prophets are drunk when they see their visions; the judges stumble when they make their decisions.

Isaiah 29:9

Be surprised and amazed. Blind yourselves so that you cannot see. Become drunk, but not from wine. Trip and fall, but not from beer.

Isaiah 38:12

Like a shepherd’s tent, my home has been pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth a weaver rolls up and cuts from the loom. In one day you brought me to this end.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your leaders have turned against me.

Isaiah 66:24

“They will go out and see the dead bodies of the people who sinned against me. The worms that eat them will never die, and the fires that burn them will never stop, and everyone will hate to see those bodies.”

Jeremiah 25:27

“Then say to them, ‘This is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Drink this cup of my anger. Get drunk from it and vomit. Fall down and don’t get up because of the war I am sending among you!’

Jeremiah 4:24

I looked at the mountains, and they were shaking. All the hills were trembling.

Jeremiah 51:29

The land shakes and moves in pain, because the Lord will do what he has planned to Babylon. He will make Babylon an empty desert, where no one will live.

Jeremiah 8:4

“Say to the people of Judah: ‘This is what the Lord says: When people fall down, don’t they get up again? And when someone goes the wrong way, doesn’t he turn back?

Lamentations 1:14

“He has noticed my sins; they are tied together by his hands; they hang around my neck. He has turned my strength into weakness. The Lord has handed me over to those who are stronger than I.

Daniel 11:19

After that happens the king of the North will go back to the strong, walled cities of his own country, but he will lose his power. That will be the end of him.

Amos 8:14

They make promises by the idol in Samaria and say, ‘As surely as the god of Dan lives … ’ and, ‘As surely as the god of Beersheba lives, we promise . . . ’ So they will fall and never get up again.”

Nahum 1:5

The mountains shake in front of him, and the hills melt. The earth trembles when he comes; the world and all who live in it shake with fear.

Revelation 18:21

Then a powerful angel picked up a large stone, like one used for grinding grain, and threw it into the sea. He said: “In the same way, the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, and it will never be found again.