Isaiah 24:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 24:5 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 13:20
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Romans 8:20-21
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, …
Hebrews 9:1
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Numbers 35:33-34
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

It is a very dark and melancholy scene that this prophecy presents to our view; turn our eyes which way we will, every thing looks dismal. The threatened desolations are here described in a great variety of expressions to the same purport, and all aggravating. I. The earth is stripped of all its ornaments and looks as if it were taken off its basis; it is made empty and waste (Isa. 24:1), as if it…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. 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.