Isaiah 24:5

Isaiah 24:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
• New International Version (NIV)The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant.
• New Living Translation (NLT)The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted God’s instructions, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant.

Context of Isaiah 24:5

3The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the Lord has spoken this word. 4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish. The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left. 7The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

Isaiah 24:5 word by word

וְהָאָ֥רֶץ חָנְפָ֖ה תַּ֣חַת יֹשְׁבֶ֑יהָ כִּֽי־עָבְר֤וּ תוֹרֹת֙ חָ֣לְפוּ חֹ֔ק הֵפֵ֖רוּ בְּרִ֥ית עוֹלָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• also is defiledחָנֵףchânêph · to polluteH2610
• under the inhabitantsיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• thereof; because they have transgressedעָבַר‛âbar · to pass: trespassH5674
• the lawsתּוֹרָהtôrâh tôrâh · instructionH8451
• changedחָלַףchâlaph · to passH2498
• the ordinanceחֹקchôq · statute: decreeH2706
• brokenפָּרַרpârar · to breakH6565
• the everlastingעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769
• covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285

Cross-references for Isaiah 24:5

• Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
• Genesis 6:11Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Leviticus 18:24"Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
• Leviticus 20:22"You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
• Numbers 35:33You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
• 2 Chronicles 33:9Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.
• Psalms 106:36They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
• Jeremiah 3:1"If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
• Ezekiel 7:20His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
• Ezekiel 22:24"Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.
• Micah 2:10Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
• Romans 8:20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
• Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: "Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
• Isaiah 50:1Thus says the Lord: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
• Isaiah 59:1Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
• Deuteronomy 32:15"But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

Commentaries on Isaiah 24:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5The laws "The law" - תורה torah, singular: so read the Septuagint, Syriac, and Chaldee.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof - The statements in this verse are given as a reason why the curse had been pronounced against them, and why these calamities had come upon them, Isaiah 24:6. The first reason is, that the very earth become polluted by their crimes. This phrase may denote that injustice and cruelty prevailed to such an extent that the very earth was stained with gore, and covered with blood under the guilty…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Isaiah likely referred to the everlasting covenant that God made with all humanity through Noah (Genesis 9:8–17). The prophet noticed a similarity between the wickedness of his time and that of the world before the flood.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. earth--rather, "the land." defiled under ... inhabitants--namely, with innocent blood (Ge 4:11; Nu 35:33; Psa 106:38). laws ... ordinance ... everlasting covenant--The moral laws, positive statutes, and national covenant designed to be for ever between God and them.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings