Isaiah 24:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ It reeled to and fro like a drunkard when intoxicated: like a lodge in a vineyard the land shall be shaken. For iniquity hath prevailed over it; and it shall fall and shall not be able to rise.

⁴ Because mine iniquities mounted above my head; like a heavy burden they were heavy on me.

²⁷ they reel and stagger like one drunk, and all their skill is swallowed up.

⁸ Must the daughter of Sion be left as a shed in a vineyard: and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers; as a city taken by siege?

²⁸ the lawless and sinful shall be crushed together; and they who have forsaken the Lord shall be utterly destroyed:

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel; and the men of Juda his beloved plant. I waited for their executing justice, but they committed injustice, and promoted not righteousness, but an outcry. ⁸ Woe unto them who join house to house, and who are bringing field nearer to field, that they may take something from their neighbour. Are you alone to dwell in the land? ⁹ For these things have come to the ears of the Lord of Hosts. For though there be many houses they shall be for desolation; though great and fair, there shall be no inhabitants therein. ¹⁰ For the ground Worked by ten yoke of oxen will not yield a bath of wine; and he who soweth six measures shall not raise three. ¹¹ Woe to them, who rise early to follow strong drink, and continue at it till late at night; for the wine will inflame them. ¹² For with kithara and psaltery, tabors and pipes, they drink wine; but they regard not the works of the Lord, nor consider the operations of his hands. ¹³ Therefore my people are become captives, because they did not know the Lord; and multitudes have died of famine and thirst; ¹⁴ and Hades hath enlarged its appetite, and opened its mouth, that there may be no want of room; and down shall go the honourable and the great, and the rich and the pestilent men of the land. ¹⁵ The commoner shall be humbled; and the noble dishonoured; and the lofty eyes shall be brought down; ¹⁶ and the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment; and God, the Holy One, shall be glorified by righteousness; ¹⁷ and they who have been plundered shall be fed like bulls, and lambs shall graze the waste places of them who have been removed. ¹⁸ Woe unto them who draw out sins as for a long cable: and iniquities as for an ox chain: ¹⁹ who say, "Let what he is to do approach speedily that we may see; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come that we may know it." ²⁰ Woe to them 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 them who are wise in their own conceit, and in their own eyes prudent. ²² Woe to your mighty men who drink wine; and to your princes who mingle strong drink: ²³ who justify the wicked for rewards; and deprive the just of his right. ²⁴ For this cause, as stubble will be set on fire by a coal, and consumed by a neglected flame; their root shall be like touch wood, and their blossom shall ascend like dust: for they desired not the law of the Lord of Hosts: but provoked to wrath the manifestion of the Holy One of Israel. ²⁵ Wherefore the Lord of Hosts was incensed against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and smote them: and the mountains were convulsed, and their carcasses were as dung in the high way: and for all this his anger was not turned away; but still his hand is high. ²⁶ Therefore he will erect a standard among the nations far off, and summon them from the extremity of the earth; and behold! with speed they are coming swiftly. ²⁷ They will not hunger, nor will they be weary: they will not slumber, nor lie down to sleep; nor shall their girdles be loosed from their loins, nor the latchets of their sandals broken. ²⁸ Their arrows are sharp; and their bows are bent: the hoofs of their horses have been accounted as flint, and the wheels of their chariots are like a whirlwind. ²⁹ They growl like lions, and are at hand like young lions. He will seize and roar like a wild beast and drive out the people, and there shall be none to deliver them. ³⁰ On that day he will roar against them like the roaring of the billowy sea; and they will look upwards to the heaven and down on the earth; and lo! distressful darkness in their tribulation.

¹⁴ For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as a drunkard doth, when he is vomiting.

⁹ [p] Be sunk in dejection and stand astonished; be drunk and reel, not with wine nor strong drink;

¹² I am cut off from my generation, I have left the remainder of my life. He is gone and departed from me, like one striking a tent, having just pitched it. My soul within me was like a web which the weaver was in act to sever from the loom.

²⁷ Your fathers first, then your chiefs transgressed against me.

⁴ Thus saith the Lord, Doth not he who falleth rise again? Or doth not he who turneth aside, return back?

²⁷ And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty, Drink and be drunk, and you shall vomit, and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I send among you.

¹⁴ He hath kept a watch on my transgressions. They are wreathed round my hands. They have reached up to my neck. My strength is enfeebled. For into my hands the Lord hath sent pains. I cannot stand.

¹⁹ Then he will turn his face to the strength of his own land, and will be weak and fall, and will not be found.

¹ [p] Hear a word of the Lord, children of Israel! the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of this land; because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land; ² Cursing and lying and murder and theft and adultery are burst out on the land, and blood mingleth with blood; ³ therefore the land shall mourn and be wasted with all its inhabitants, with the wild beasts of the fields and with the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the air. Even the fishes of the sea shall fail. ⁴ [J] In order that none may be judged, that none may reprove, this people of mine shall be like a contradicted priest, [[J] Jehovah. [p] The prophet speaks.] ⁵ and shall be weak for years; and with thee the prophet shall be without strength. I have compared thy mother to the night:

¹⁴ They who swear by the atonement of Samaria, and they who say, Thy God, Dan, liveth: thy God, Bersabee, liveth, shall indeed fall and shall never rise any more.

⁵ Then the angel who was talking with me went out and said to me, Look up with thine eyes and see this which is going out. ⁶ And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the measure which is going away. Then he said, This is the iniquity of them in all this land. ⁷ Then lo! a talent of lead was brought out; and lo! a woman was seated in the midst of the measure. ⁸ And he said, This is the iniquity. Then he threw her down into the measure and he threw the mass of lead on her mouth.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation.

²¹ Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon that great city be dashed down and shall be found no more.