Isaiah 24:20

New International Version

The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again.

Cross References

Genesis 41:31

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

Job 12:25

They grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

Psalm 107:27

They reeled and staggered like drunkards; they were at their wits’ end.

Psalm 38:4

My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.

Isaiah 1:28

But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish.

Isaiah 1:8

Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has poured into them a spirit of dizziness; they make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

Isaiah 24:1

See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants—

Isaiah 28:7

And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.

Isaiah 29:9

Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.

Isaiah 38:12

Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned; those I sent to teach you rebelled against me.

Isaiah 66:24

“And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

Jeremiah 25:27

“Then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.’

Jeremiah 4:24

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

Jeremiah 51:29

The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand— to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live there.

Jeremiah 8:4

“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “ ‘When people fall down, do they not get up? When someone turns away, do they not return?

Lamentations 1:14

“My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

Daniel 11:19

After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own country but will stumble and fall, to be seen no more.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria— who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the god of Beersheba lives’— they will fall, never to rise again.”

Nahum 1:5

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

Revelation 18:21

Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.