Isaiah 24:20

The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a flimsy hut, then falls, crushed by its own sin, never to rise. Transgression brings irreversible collapse.

Cross-references · 18

• Isa 19:14The 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.
• Isa 29:9Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
• Dan 11:19After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be no more.
• Amos 8:14Those 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.”
• Rev 18:21Then 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.
• Hos 4:1–5Hear 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!
• Zech 5:5–8Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”
• Lam 1:14My 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.
• Isa 5:7–30For 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.
• Isa 43:27Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.
• Ps 107:27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
• Isa 38:12My 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.
• Isa 1:8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
• Ps 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
• Jer 8:4So 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?
• Isa 1:28But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
• Jer 25:27“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.’
• Matt 23:35–36And 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.

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