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Isaiah 24

Isa. 24:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
shall reel
nuwa` (Hebrew #5128)
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
KJV usage: continually, fugitive, X make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
Pronounce: noo'-ah
Origin: a primitive root
b to and fro
nuwa` (Hebrew #5128)
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
KJV usage: continually, fugitive, X make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
Pronounce: noo'-ah
Origin: a primitive root
like a drunkard
shikkowr (Hebrew #7910)
from 7937; intoxicated, as a state or a habit
KJV usage: drunk(-ard, -en, -en man).
Pronounce: shik-kore'
Origin: or shikkor {shik-kore'}
, and shall be removed
nuwd (Hebrew #5110)
to nod, i.e. waver; figuratively, to wander, flee, disappear; also (from shaking the head in sympathy), to console, deplore, or (from tossing the head in scorn) taunt
KJV usage: bemoan, flee, get, mourn, make to move, take pity, remove, shake, skip for joy, be sorry, vagabond, way, wandering.
Pronounce: nood
Origin: a primitive root
c like a cottage
mluwnah (Hebrew #4412)
a hut, a hammock
KJV usage: cottage, lodge.
Pronounce: mel-oo-naw'
Origin: feminine from 3885
; and the transgression
pesha` (Hebrew #6588)
a revolt (national, moral or religious)
KJV usage: rebellion, sin, transgression, trespass.
Pronounce: peh'-shah
Origin: from 6586
thereof shall be heavy
kabad (Hebrew #3513)
a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
KJV usage: abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, X be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, X more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
Pronounce: kaw-bad'
Origin: or kabed {kaw-bade'}
e upon it; and it shall fall
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
, and not rise
quwm (Hebrew #6965)
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
KJV usage: abide, accomplish, X be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, X be dim, endure, X enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, X but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-)rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-)stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, - rising).
Pronounce: koom
Origin: a primitive root
again
yacaph (Hebrew #3254)
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
KJV usage: add, X again, X any more, X cease, X come more, + conceive again, continue, exceed, X further, X gather together, get more, give more-over, X henceforth, increase (more and more), join, X longer (bring, do, make, much, put), X (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, X yet, yield.
Pronounce: yaw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
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Isa. 19:14• 14The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. (Isa. 19:14)
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Rev. 21:1• 1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Rev. 21:1)
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Zech. 5:5‑8• 5Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
 6And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
 7And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
 8And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. (Zech. 5:5‑8)

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Isa. 19:14• 14The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. (Isa. 19:14)
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Isa. 29:9• 9Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. (Isa. 29:9)
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Psa. 107:27• 27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. (Psa. 107:27)
removed.
Isa. 1:8• 8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. (Isa. 1:8)
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Isa. 38:12• 12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. (Isa. 38:12)
the transgression.
Isa. 5:7‑30• 7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
 8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
 9In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
 10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
 11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
 12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
 13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
 14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
 15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
 16But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
 17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
 18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
 19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
 20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
 21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
 22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
 23Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
 24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
 25Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
 26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
 27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
 28Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
 29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
 30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. (Isa. 5:7‑30)
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Psa. 38:4• 4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:4)
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Lam. 1:14• 14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. (Lam. 1:14)
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Hos. 4:1‑5• 1Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
 3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
 4Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
 5Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. (Hos. 4:1‑5)
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Matt. 23:35‑36• 35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
 36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. (Matt. 23:35‑36)
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Jer. 8:4• 4Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? (Jer. 8:4)
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Jer. 25:27• 27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. (Jer. 25:27)
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Dan. 11:19• 19Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. (Dan. 11:19)
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Amos 8:14• 14They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. (Amos 8:14)
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Zech. 5:5‑8• 5Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
 6And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
 7And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
 8And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. (Zech. 5:5‑8)
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Rev. 18:21• 21And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. (Rev. 18:21)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.