Isaiah 24:20 Cross References - ACV

²⁰ The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock. And the transgression of it shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

²⁷ They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a shed in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

²⁸ But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake LORD shall be consumed.

⁷ For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry. ⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! ⁹ In my ears says LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. ¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah. ¹¹ Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them! ¹² And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands. ¹³ Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of knowledge, and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst. ¹⁴ Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure. And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it. ¹⁵ And the common man is bowed down, and the great man is debased, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled, ¹⁶ but LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. ¹⁷ Then the lambs shall feed as in their pasture, and wanderers shall eat the waste places of the fat ones. ¹⁸ Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope, ¹⁹ who say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it. And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it! ²⁰ Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! ²² Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink, ²³ who justify the wicked for rewards, and take away the justice of the righteous man from him! ²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. ²⁵ Therefore the anger of LORD is kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has smitten them. And the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. ²⁶ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will whistle for them from the end of the earth, and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. ²⁷ None shall be weary nor stumble among them. None shall slumber nor sleep, nor shall the belt of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken, ²⁸ whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind. ²⁹ Their roaring shall be like a lioness. They shall roar like young lions. Yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. ³⁰ And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if a man looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress, and the light is darkened in the clouds of it.

¹⁴ LORD has mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her, and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

⁹ Tarry ye and wonder, take your pleasure and be blind. They are drunken, but not with wine. They stagger, but not with strong drink.

¹² My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night thou will make an end of me.

²⁷ Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

⁴ Moreover thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall he turn away, and not return?

²⁷ And thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

¹⁴ The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up upon my neck. He has made my strength to fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

¹⁹ Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.

¹ Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. ² There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood. ³ Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yea, the fishes of the sea shall also be taken away. ⁴ Yet, let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for thy people are as those who strive with the priest. ⁵ And thou shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night. And I will destroy thy mother.

¹⁴ Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, lives, and, As the way of Beersheba lives, they shall fall, and never rise up again.

⁵ Then the agent who talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what this is that goes forth. ⁶ And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land ⁷ (and, behold, a talent of lead was lifted up), and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah. ⁸ And he said, This is Wickedness. And he cast her down into the midst of the ephah, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth of it.

³⁵ so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, that all these things will come upon this generation.

²¹ And one mighty agent took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus in violence Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and will, no, not be found any more.