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Isaiah 24:5

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3 The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.

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

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

6 Therefore 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.

7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
KJV
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
WEB
The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
ASV
The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
DARBY
And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
BLB
And the earth is defiled under its dwellers, because they have transgressed the laws—they have passed ovr the decree, they have broken the everlasting covenant.
ÅB
Og jorden er vanhelliget under dem som bor på den; for de har krenket lovene, overtrådt budet, brutt den evige pakt.
OTB
Jorden er besmittet av sine innbyggere; de har overtrådt lovene, endret forskriftene og brutt den evige pakt.
B1930
Og jorden er vanhelliget under dem som bor på den; for de har krenket lovene, overtrådt budet, brutt den evige pakt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Hebrews 13:20

    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,

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  • Romans 8:20–21

    For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

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  • Hebrews 9:1

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

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  • Daniel 7:25

    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.

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  • Ezekiel 20:13

    Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.

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  • Jeremiah 3:1–2

    “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.

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  • 2 Kings 23:26–27

    Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.

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  • Leviticus 18:24–28

    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.

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