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Isaiah 24:5

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, affected with the blood-guiltiness of its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant, that is, men disregarded the revelation of God in the works of creation, ignored the admonitions of Conscience, set aside the agreement made at the time of Noah: all mankind has returned to the baseness of the time before the Flood.

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See also Isaiah 24:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 24:5. _THE LAWS _- "The law"] תורה _torah_, singular: so read the _Septuagint, Syriac_, and _Chaldee_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 24 The Day of Jehovah 1. _Jehovah dealing with the earth(Isaiah 24:1)_ 2. _All classes affected (Isaiah 24:2)_ 3. _The Desolations described (Isaiah 24:3)_ 4. The Jewish Remnant during the tr...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 24. A WORLD-WIDE JUDGMENT FORETOLD. The apocalypse opens with the description of a judgment on the whole world. This judgment is predicted, it has not already happened. It will involve all in o...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE EARTH. See last note on p. 959. TRANSGRESSED. Hebrew. _'abar_. App-44. THE LAWS. THE EVERLASTING COVENANT. Reference to Pentateuch. See note on Genesis 9:16. and App-92, The Pentateuch was as we...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The earth lies under a curse on account of the wickedness of its inhabitants....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The earth also is defiled_(literally, PROFANED) _under the inhabitants thereof_ That the land of Israel is profaned by the sins of its people, is a prominent idea in the O.T.; the conception is here...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE EARTH ALSO IS DEFILED, &C.— This verse describes, as in a parenthesis, the causes of the divine judgment upon the land, and shews us the true scene of the prophesy: the principal cause is the shed...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IV. JUDAH AND JUDGMENT - Chapter S 24 - 27 A. JUDGMENT ON JUDAH'S ENEMIES, CHAPTER 24 1. JUDGMENT IS SURE TEXT: Isaiah 24:1-6 1 Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turn...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. THE EARTH ALSO IS DEFILED UNDER THE INHABIT...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DEFILED] i.e. desecrated by bloodshed (Numbers 35:33). EVERLASTING COVENANT] The phrase seems to allude to Genesis 9:16, the covenant with Noah and his sons. The bloodshed, upon which the great world-...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God’s *covenant with his people promised them great blessings (good things), both for their lives and for their land (see Deuteronomy 28:1-14). But if the people would not obey God’s laws, that same *...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 24 GOD WILL DESTROY THE EARTH V1 Listen carefully! The *Lord intends to empty the la...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָ אָ֥רֶץ חָנְפָ֖ה תַּ֣חַת יֹשְׁבֶ֑יהָ כִּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE DESOLATION OF A GUILTY WORLD Isaiah 24:1-13 This and the three following Chapter s form a single prophecy, describing the calamities about to desolate the land, because the inhabitants _had trans...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In these last Chapter s of the second circle, the prophet takes a still wider outlook. He sees how all the world is under the government of God. In this chapter the prophet states the fact in general...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The earth (c) also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. (c) That is, does not give her fruit for the sin...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is but little variation from what went before. The representation is as if taken from the prophets vision; the roll is written within and without, and the contents are lamentations, and mourning,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._And the earth was deceitful. _(123) Others render it “defiled” or “polluted,” because כנף (_chānăph_) means “to be wicked.” Both renderings may be appropriate; but the next verse appears to demand...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 24 sets before us the overturning of everything in the earth. The land of Israel is first in view. But there all the elements of all the systems of this world will be gathered together and jud...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE EARTH ALSO IS DEFILED UNDER THE INHABITANTS OF IT,.... Or, "and the earth"; or, "for the earth is defiled" q; and so it is a reason why it is emptied and spoiled, because polluted and corrupted wi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Ver. 5. _The earth also is defiled,_] _a_ viz...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The earth also_ Rather, _And the land is defiled under the inhabitants thereof_ By the wickedness of its people. Here we have the causes of the divine judgment upon the land: _because they have trans...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-12 All whose treasures and happiness are laid up on earth, will soon be brought to want and misery. It is good to apply to ourselves what the Scripture says of the vanity and vexation of spirit whi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE EARTH ALSO, Heb. _And the land_; or, _this land_; for here is an emphatical article in the Hebrew text. IS DEFILED UNDER THE INHABITANTS THEREOF; by the wickedness of its people; of which see LEVI...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 24:5 earth H776 defiled H2610 (H8804) inhabitants H3427 (H8802) transgressed H5674 (H8804) laws H8451 Changed...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    EVENTUALLY THE CURSE WILL RESULT IN BLESSING FOR GOD'S OWN PEOPLE (ISAIAH 24:4). The reason for the coming judgment is clearly stated. It will occur because of man's disobedience to God. That will be...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Looking through national troubles to the Kingdom age. The coming tribulation for the Jews, destruction of Gentile powers and opening of the Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Earth, poll...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 24:17. _Fear, and the pit._ This is a figure of hunting, the wild beasts being chased into pits dug in narrow passages, and covered with green branches. So the great ones should be caught, by t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof_ THE EARTH POLLUTED BY SIN The inhabitants of the earth pollute it by their sins: the children of Israel defiled God’s land by filling His in...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty_ “THE EARTH,” “The earth,” not the “land” (R.. marg_._) of Judah or Palestine. “The prophecy leaps far beyond all particular or national conditions.” (_J. Sk...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 24:1 The third and climactic vision of God ruling the nations in judgment and salvation. These chapters foresee the whole world in crisis at the end of history, but God’s people...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 24:5 THE EARTH LIES DEFILED... FOR THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE LAWS. Human sin pollutes the world (see Numbers 35:34). violated

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VI. GOD'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 24:1 GOD'S JUDGMENTS ON THE WORLD AT

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we get into chapter 24, we get into, really, things that the earth will be facing very soon, because we get into things that will be happening during the Great Tribulation as the Lord is prepar...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 33:9; 2 Kings 17:7; 2 Kings 22:13; 2 Kings 23:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Defiled — By the wickedness of its people. The laws — The laws of God. Ordinance — God's ordinances concerning his worship and service; the singular being put for the plural. Covenant — The covenant m...

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