Isaiah 24:20

¹⁴The LORD has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

¹⁹Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

⁹Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

¹⁴Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”

²¹A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.

¹Hear the LORD’s word, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. ²There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. ³Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die. ⁴“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest. ⁵You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.

⁵Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is that is appearing.”

⁶I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah^[+] that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land—

⁷and behold, a lead cover weighing one talent^[+] was lifted up—and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah^8[+] He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the lead weight on its mouth.

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

²⁷They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

⁸The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.