reel to and fro like a drunkard Cf. Psalms 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. Isaiah 1:8 of the watchman's frail shelter in the cucumber-field. It might here be fitly rendered "hammock."

the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it The material fabric of the earth is as it were crushed beneath the accumulated guilt of its inhabitants (cf. Isaiah 24:5; Isaiah 26:21).

it shall fall, and not rise again Apparently a citation from Amos 5:2.

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