Isaiah 24:20
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.

Young's Literal Translation
Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to rise.

King James Bible
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Hebrew
The earth
אֶ֙רֶץ֙ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

staggers
נ֣וֹעַ (nō·w·a‘)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 5128: To quiver, wave, waver, tremble, totter

like a drunkard
כַּשִּׁכּ֔וֹר (kaš·šik·kō·wr)
Preposition-k, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7910: Intoxicated, as a, state, a habit

and sways
וְהִֽתְנוֹדְדָ֖ה (wə·hiṯ·nō·wḏ·ḏāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5110: To nod, waver, to wander, flee, disappear, to console, deplore, taunt

like a shack.
כַּמְּלוּנָ֑ה (kam·mə·lū·nāh)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4412: A hut, a hammock

Earth’s rebellion
פִּשְׁעָ֔הּ (piš·‘āh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6588: Transgression

weighs it down,
וְכָבַ֤ד (wə·ḵā·ḇaḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3513: To be heavy, weighty, or burdensome

and it falls,
וְנָפְלָ֖ה (wə·nā·p̄ə·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

never
וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

to rise
קֽוּם׃ (qūm)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

again.
תֹסִ֥יף (ṯō·sîp̄)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3254: To add, augment

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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