Isaiah 24:5 “The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; t…”

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

World English Bible

The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

American Standard Version

The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

Geneva Bible 1599

The earth also deceiueth, because of the inhabitantes thereof: for they transgressed the lawes: they changed the ordinances, and brake the euerlasting couenant.

Darby Translation

And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.

Young's Literal Translation

And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.

Bible in Basic English

The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

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Cross references

“defiled”

Genesis 6:11–13 Leviticus 18:24–28 Leviticus 20:22 2 Chronicles 33:9 Psalm 106:36–39 Ezekiel 7:20–24

Genesis 6:11–13 · BSB

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

Leviticus 18:24–28 · BSB

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

Leviticus 20:22 · BSB

You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

2 Chronicles 33:9 · BSB

So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

Psalm 106:36–39 · BSB

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

Ezekiel 7:20–24 · BSB

His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

“because”

Isaiah 1:2–5 Isaiah 50:1 Isaiah 59:1–3 Isaiah 59:12–15 2 Kings 17:7–23 2 Kings 22:13–17

Isaiah 1:2–5 · BSB

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

Isaiah 50:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your…

Isaiah 59:1–3 · BSB

Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.

Isaiah 59:12–15 · BSB

For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

2 Kings 17:7–23 · BSB

All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

2 Kings 22:13–17 · BSB

“Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed th…

“changed”

Daniel 7:25 Hebrews 9:1 Mark 7:7–9 Joshua 24:25 Luke 1:6

Daniel 7:25 · BSB

He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.

Hebrews 9:1 · BSB

Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.

Mark 7:7–9 · BSB

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’

Joshua 24:25 · BSB

On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.

Luke 1:6 · BSB

Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

“broken”

Hebrews 13:20 Psalm 55:5 2 Samuel 23:5 Psalm 105:10 Jeremiah 50:5 Ezekiel 37:26

Hebrews 13:20 · BSB

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

Psalm 55:5 · BSB

Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

2 Samuel 23:5 · BSB

Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

Psalm 105:10 · BSB

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

Jeremiah 50:5 · BSB

They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Ezekiel 37:26 · BSB

And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.

Also

Isaiah 10:6

Isaiah 10:6 · BSB

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

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