נ֣וֹעַ תָּנ֤וּעַ אֶ֙רֶץ֙ כַּשִּׁכּ֔וֹר וְהִֽתְנוֹדְדָ֖ה כַּמְּלוּנָ֑ה וְכָבַ֤ד עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ פִּשְׁעָ֔הּ וְנָפְלָ֖ה וְלֹא־תֹסִ֥יף קֽוּם׃ (ס)
Bumi terhuyung-huyung seperti orang mabuk dan bergoyang-goyang seperti pondok jaga; pelanggarannya menekan berat atasnya, sehingga ia rebah dan tidak akan bangkit lagi.
Tur HaArokh
וינועו, “they trembled.” Our sages (compare Rashi quoting Mechilta)) understand the word as related to זיע, It appears in a similar sense in Isaiah 24,20 נוע תנוע ארץ כשכור, “the earth wobbles like a drunk.” People retreated from that spectacle out of fear.[the word poses many problems even in the Mechilta de Rabbi Yishmael, compare Torah Shleymah, Rabbi Menachem Kasher Ed.] According to the followers of the plain meaning of the text, the פשט, the word is related to תנועה, motion, i.e. the people moved away from this spectacle.
Ramban
VAYANU’U.’ In the opinion of our Rabbis,520Mechilta on the verse here, and mentioned partly in Rashi. the term nu’a here can only denote reeling to and fro, and so it says, The earth ‘no’a tanu’a’ (reeleth to and fro) like a drunken man.521Isaiah 24:20. If so, the verse is stating [two things]: that the people were shaken up, and that out of their fear, they retreated farther backwards and stood afar off. But in the opinion of “the masters of the plain meaning of Scripture,”522The allusion is to Ibn Ezra, who interprets it so. vayanu’u means that “‘they moved’ backwards from their place and stood from afar,” the usage of the word being similar to: ‘na’ (a fugitive) and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth,523Genesis 4:12. and so also: ‘vay’ni’eim’ (and He made them wander) in the wilderness.524Numbers 32:13.
Sforno
וינועו, a word describing involuntary movements of one’s body, trembling. One is unable to arrest one’s motion i.e. that which is known as נע. The word appears transitively in Numbers 32,13 ויניעם במדבר, “He made them wander in the desert.” It occurs intransitively also in Isaiah 24,20 תנוע ארץ כשכור, “the earth is swaying like a drunkard.” The Israelites’ trembling was inspired by the fright they experienced at hearing G’d’s voice.