Isaiah 24:20 Cross References - NSB

²⁰ The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard and it quakes like a shack in the wind. Its transgression is heavy upon it, and it will fall, never to rise again.

⁴ My guilt has overwhelmed me. Like a heavy load, it is more than I can bear.

²⁷ They reeled and staggered like drunks, and all their skills as sailors became useless.

⁸ My people, the daughter of Zion is left like an empty hut in a vineyard. It is like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.

²⁸ Rebels and sinners will be crushed at the same time. Those who abandon Jehovah will come to an end.

⁷ I am Jehovah of Hosts (All Powerful)! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found. ⁸ Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land! ⁹ With my own ears I heard Jehovah of Hosts say: »Many houses will become empty. Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them. ¹⁰ »A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.« ¹¹ How horrible it will be for those who get up early in the morning to look for a drink and who sit up late at night until they are drunk from wine. ¹² At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they do not pay attention to what Jehovah is doing or respect what his hands have done. ¹³ My people will go into exile because they do not understand what I am doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst. ¹⁴ That is why the grave's appetite increases. It opens its mouth very wide so that honored people and common people will go down into it. Those who are noisy and joyous will go down into it. ¹⁵ People will be brought down. Everyone will be humiliated and the eyes of arrogant people will be abased (humbled). ¹⁶ Jehovah of Hosts shows his greatness by doing what is right. He reveals his holiness by judging his people. ¹⁷ In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture. ¹⁸ Woe to those who scatter sin with cords of falsehood and iniquity with a cart rope! ¹⁹ You say: »Let Jehovah hurry up and do what he says he will, so that we can see it. Let Israel's holy God carry out his plans. Let us see what he has in mind.« ²⁰ You are doomed! You call evil good and you call good evil. You turn darkness into light and light into darkness. You make what is bitter, sweet, and what is sweet you make bitter. ²¹ You are doomed! You think you are wise. You think you are so very clever. ²² You are doomed! Heroes of the wine bottle! Brave and fearless when it comes to mixing drinks! ²³ You let the guilty go free for a bribe and you keep the innocent from getting justice. ²⁴ You will go up in flames like straw and hay! You have rejected the law of the holy God Jehovah the All-Powerful Holy One of Israel. Now your roots will rot, and your blossoms will turn to dust. ²⁵ You are Jehovah’s people, but you made him terribly angry, and he struck you with his mighty arm. Mountains shook, and dead bodies covered the streets like garbage. Jehovah is still angry. He is ready to strike you again. ²⁶ Jehovah raises up a flag for the nations far away. With a whistle he signals those at the ends of the earth. Look, they are coming very quickly! ²⁷ None of them grow tired or stumble. None of them slumber or sleep. The belts on their waists are not loose or their sandal straps broken. ²⁸ Their arrows are sharpened. All their bows are strung and ready to shoot. Their horses' hoofs are as hard as flint. Their chariot wheels are as quick as the wind. ²⁹ They roar like a lioness. They growl like a young lion. They growl as they snatch their prey and carry it off to where no one can rescue it. ³⁰ In that day they will roar over their prey as the sea roars. If they look at the land, they will see only darkness and distress. Thick clouds will darken even the light.

¹⁴ Jehovah 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.

⁹ Stand still and wonder. Refuse to see and be blind. Get drunk and stagger, but not from wine.

¹² »My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd's tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day.

²⁷ »Your first ancestor sinned, and your priests rebelled against me.

⁴ »Say to them: ‘This is what Jehovah says: »When someone falls, he gets back up. When someone turns away from me, he returns.«’«

²⁷ »Jehovah said: ‘Say to them, This is what Jehovah of Hosts, »the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up because of the wars that I am going to send you.«’

¹⁴ »He keeps watch on my sins. They are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he makes my strength give way. Jehovah gives me into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

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

¹ Hear the word of Jehovah, you children of Israel! For Jehovah has a legal case against the inhabitants of the land. There is no truth! There is no goodness. There is no knowledge of God in the land. ² They do nothing but swear, deceive, kill, steal and commit adultery! There is violence and bloodshed in the land. ³ Therefore the land will mourn. All the inhabitants are weak. The beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea will also perish. ⁴ Let no man find fault and let no man reprove. After all your people are the ones who debate (argue) with a priest. ⁵ You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will stumble with you in the night. I will destroy your mother.

¹⁴ »They who swear by the sin of Samaria. They will say: ‘As your god lives, O Dan, the way Beersheba lives.’ They will fall and never rise up again.«

⁵ Then the angel said: »Lift up your eyes and see what this is that goes forth.« ⁶ I asked: »What is it?« And he replied: »This is the ephah measure that goes forth. This is their appearance in all the land« ⁷ A round flat weight made of lead was lifted up. There was a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah measure. ⁸ He said: »This is Wickedness.« He tossed her down into the middle of the ephah measure. He threw the weight of lead on the opening.

³⁵ »You are responsible for all the righteous blood shed on earth. That includes the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ »I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation (those living at that time).

²¹ A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and hurled it into the sea. He said: »With violence the great city Babylon will be thrown down, and it will not be found any longer.