Isaiah 24:19,20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The earth is utterly broken down This is repeated again, to show the dreadfulness and certainty of these judgments, and to awaken the stupid Israelites. The earth shall reel to and fro The people of the earth, the inhabitants of the land, shall be sorely perplexed and distressed, not knowing what to do, or whither to go. Or rather, the prophet here, in metaphorical expressions, borrowed from an earthquake, signifies how terribly Judea should be shaken by wars, desolations, and other divine judgments, to the entire overthrow of their church and commonwealth; and shall be removed The people shall be removed, or their constitution, civil and religious, like a cottage Or, like a lodge in a garden, of which this word is used, Isaiah 1:8, which is soon taken down and set up in another place: or, like a tent, which is easily and commonly carried from place to place. And the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it Upon their state and nation, especially the sin of crucifying the Lord of glory. And it shall fall Their government shall be overturned, their state dissolved, and their nation ruined; and not rise again Not till the latter days, when they shall believe in and receive Him whom they rejected and crucified.