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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, 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.

Context of Isaiah 24:5

3The earth will be completely laid waste and stripped because the Lord has spoken. 4The earth dries up and withers. The world wastes away and withers. The great leaders of the earth waste away. The earth is polluted by those who live on it because they’ve disobeyed the Lord’s teachings, violated his laws, and rejected the everlasting promise. 6That is why a curse devours the earth, and its people are punished for their guilt. That is why those who live on the earth are burned up, and only a few people are left. 7New wine dries up, and grapevines waste away. All happy people groan.

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 3:17Then he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree, although I commanded you, ‘You must never eat its fruit.’ The ground is cursed because of you. Through hard work you will eat ⌞food that comes⌟ from it every day of your life.
• Genesis 6:11The world was corrupt in God’s sight and full of violence.
• Leviticus 18:24“Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations which I am forcing out of your way have become unclean.
• Leviticus 20:22“If you carefully obey all my laws and my rules, the land I am bringing you to live in will not vomit you out.
• Numbers 35:33“You must not pollute the land where you live. Murder is what pollutes the land. The land where a murder was committed can never make peace with the Lord except through the death of the murderer.
• 2 Chronicles 33:9Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that they did more evil things than the nations that the Lord had destroyed when the Israelites arrived in the land.
• Psalms 106:36and they worshiped their idols, which became a trap for them.
• Jeremiah 3:1A saying: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband shouldn’t go back to her again. The land would become thoroughly polluted. “You have acted like a prostitute who has many lovers. And now you want to come back to me!” declares the Lord.
• Ezekiel 7:20They were proud of their beautiful jewels and used them to make disgusting and detestable statues ⌞of false gods⌟. That is why I will make their jewels disgusting.
• Ezekiel 22:24“Son of man, tell the city, ‘You are an unclean land that has not had rain during the day of my anger. You have not been made clean.
• Micah 2:10Get up, and go away! This is not a place to rest! It will be destroyed, completely destroyed, because it offends me.
• Romans 8:20Creation was subjected to frustration but not by its own choice. The one who subjected it to frustration did so in the hope
• Isaiah 1:2Listen, heaven, and pay attention, earth! The Lord has spoken, “I raised ⌞my⌟ children and helped them grow, but they have rebelled against me.
• Isaiah 50:1This is what the Lord says: Where are your mother’s divorce papers? Did I give her any to get rid of her? To which of my creditors did I sell you? You were sold because of your sins. I got rid of your mother because of your rebellion.
• Isaiah 59:1The Lord is not too weak to save or his ear too deaf to hear.
• Deuteronomy 32:15Jeshurun got fat and disrespectful. (You got fat! You were stuffed! You were gorged!) They abandoned the God who made them and treated the rock of their salvation like a fool.

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