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.
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Gill's Exposition
And it shall come to pass in that day,.... Not at the precise exact time the earth shall be dissolved, but previous to it, within that dispensation that is called the last day:
that the Lord shall…
Barnes' Notes
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard - This is descriptive of the agitation that occurs in an earthquake when everything is shaken from its foundation, and when trees and towers are shaken…
These verses, as those before, plainly speak,
I. Comfort to saints. They may be driven, by the common calamities of the places where they live, into the uttermost parts of the earth, or perhaps they…
Cambridge Bible
reel to and fro like a drunkard Cf. Psa 107:27.
shall be removed like a cottage Better as in R.V. shall be moved to and fro like a hut. The word for "hut" is that used in ch. Isa 1:8 of the watchman's…
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