Isaiah 24:5
The earth is polluted by its people; they have flouted God's laws, violated his regulations, and broken the eternal agreement with him.
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Genesis 3:17He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.
Genesis 17:13You must circumcise those born in your household or bought from foreigners as a sign in your bodies of my eternal agreement.
Leviticus 20:22So keep all my rules and regulations, so that the land where I'm taking you to live won't vomit you out.
Numbers 35:33Don't pollute the land where you live because bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land where blood is shed can't be purified except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Deuteronomy 32:20He said: “I will turn away from them. Then I'll see what happens to them! They are a perverse people, unfaithful children.
Joshua 24:25So Joshua made a solemn agreement between the people and the Lord that day in Shechem, obligating them to follow all the Lord's laws and instructions.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:2-13
General Desolation Announced. ( b. c. 718.) 1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly… Read the whole commentary →