Isaiah 24:20 “The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s reb…”

Isaiah 24:20

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

World English Bible

The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

American Standard Version

The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Geneva Bible 1599

The earth shall reele to and from like a drunken man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that it shall fall, and rise no more.

Darby Translation

The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it falleth and shall not rise again.

Young's Literal Translation

Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to rise.

Bible in Basic English

The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.

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Cross references

“reel”

Isaiah 19:14 Isaiah 29:9 Psalm 107:27

Isaiah 19:14 · BSB

The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

Isaiah 29:9 · BSB

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

Psalm 107:27 · BSB

They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.

“removed”

Isaiah 1:8 Isaiah 38:12

Isaiah 1:8 · BSB

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

Isaiah 38:12 · BSB

My dwelling has been picked 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; from day until night You make an end of me.

“the transgression”

Hosea 4:1–5 Lamentations 1:14 Isaiah 5:7–30 Psalm 38:4 Matthew 23:35 Matthew 23:36

Hosea 4:1–5 · BSB

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

Lamentations 1:14 · BSB

My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

Isaiah 5:7–30 · BSB

For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

Psalm 38:4 · BSB

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

Matthew 23:35 · BSB

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 23:36 · BSB

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

“and it”

Daniel 11:19 Amos 8:14 Revelation 18:21 Zechariah 5:5–8 Jeremiah 8:4 Jeremiah 25:27

Daniel 11:19 · BSB

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

Amos 8:14 · BSB

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

Revelation 18:21 · BSB

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.

Zechariah 5:5–8 · BSB

Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”

Jeremiah 8:4 · BSB

So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?

Jeremiah 25:27 · BSB

“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’

Also

Isaiah 43:27 Isaiah 1:28

Isaiah 43:27 · BSB

Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.

Isaiah 1:28 · BSB

But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.

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