Isaiah 24:5 Cross References - NSB

⁵ The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant.

¹⁷ He said to Adam: »Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. ¹⁸ »It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field.

¹¹ The earth was corrupt in God’s sight. It was full of violence. ¹² God saw how corrupt the earth had become. All the people on earth had corrupted their ways. ¹³ God said to Noah: »I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am going to destroy them with the earth.

¹³ »Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be a long lasting covenant. ¹⁴ »Any male not circumcised in the flesh will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.«

²⁴ »‘Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations that I am forcing out of your way have become unclean. ²⁵ »‘The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it. ²⁶ »‘Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things. ²⁷ »‘The people of the land who were there before you did all these disgusting things. As a result, the land has become unclean. ²⁸ »‘If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the people who were there before you.

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.

³³ »If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered. ³⁴ »Do not defile the land where you are living! I am Jehovah and I live among the people of Israel.«

¹⁵ »Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation.

²⁰ »He said: ‘I will turn away from them and find out what will happen to them. They are a devious and perverse generation. They are children who have no faith.

²⁵ Joshua made a covenant for the people that day at Shechem. He gave them laws and rules to follow.

⁵ »‘That is how God will bless my descendants. He made an eternal covenant with me. It is an agreement that will not be broken, a promise that will not be changed. That is all I desire. That will be my victory, and God will surely bring it about.

⁷ The wrath (intense anger) of Jehovah came on Israel because they had done evil against Jehovah their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They worshipped other gods. ⁸ They lived by the rules of the nations whom Jehovah sent out from before the children of Israel. ⁹ The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right according to Jehovah their God. They built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower to the walled towns. ¹⁰ They erected pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree. ¹¹ They burned their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom Jehovah sent away from them. They did evil things, moving Jehovah to anger. ¹² They made themselves servants of disgusting things. Even though Jehovah said: »You should not do this.« ¹³ Jehovah sent his messengers and prophets to warn Israel and Judah: »Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands. The commandments contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors. I handed them on to you through my servants the prophets.« ¹⁴ They would not obey. They were stubborn like their ancestors. They did not trust in Jehovah their God. ¹⁵ They refused to obey his instructions. They did not keep the covenant he made with their ancestors. They disregarded his warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They followed the customs of the surrounding nations, disobeying Jehovah’s command not to imitate them. ¹⁶ They broke all the laws of Jehovah their God. They made two metal bull-calves to worship. They also made an image of the goddess Asherah. Also they worshiped the stars and served the god Baal. ¹⁷ They caused their sons and their daughters to go through the fire to be sacrificed. They made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of Jehovah, till they provoked him to anger. ¹⁸ Jehovah was very angry with Israel. He removed them from his sight. Only the tribe of Judah kept its place. ¹⁹ But even Judah did not obey the commands of Jehovah their God. They were guided by the rules Israel made. ²⁰ So Jehovah would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel. He caused trouble for them. He gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face. ²¹ He tore Israel from the house of David and made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam drove them away from the laws of Jehovah and made them do a great sin. ²² The children of Israel walked in all the sins Jeroboam committed. They did not depart from these sins. ²³ Jehovah removed Israel from his sight as he said he would through all his servants the prophets. Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.

¹³ »Go inquire of Jehovah on my behalf and for the people. This is concerning the words in this book that has been found. Jehovah’s fierce anger is directed towards us because our ancestors did not obey the things in this book or do everything written in it.« ¹⁴ So the priest Hilkiah, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to talk to the prophet Huldah. She was the wife of Shallum, son of Tikvah and grandson of Harhas. Shallum was in charge of the royal wardrobe. Huldah was living in the Second Part of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ She told them: »This is what Jehovah God of Israel says: Tell the man who sent you to me: ¹⁶ ‘This is what Jehovah says: »I am going to bring disaster on this place and on the people living here. This is according to everything written in the book that the king of Judah has read. ¹⁷ »‘I will do this because they abandoned me. They sacrificed to other gods in order to make me furious. Therefore, my burning anger against this place will never be extinguished.«’«

²⁶ Still the heat of Jehovah’s anger was not turned back from Judah. This is because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to anger. ²⁷ Jehovah said: »I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel. I will have nothing more to do with this town. It is Jerusalem my town. And the holy house of which I said: ‘My name will be there.’«

⁹ Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that they did more evil things than the nations that Jehovah destroyed when the Israelites arrived in the land.

⁶ I said, »O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face (praying) to you (being in your presence), my God: for our sins have increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven. ⁷ »From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners. Because of our sins, the kings of the lands captured us. We were given to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

⁵ Fear and trembling have overcome me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

¹⁰ He confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant.

³⁶ They worshiped their idols, which became a trap for them. ³⁷ They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. ³⁸ They shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land became polluted with blood. ³⁹ They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.

² Listen, heaven, and pay attention, earth! Jehovah (YHWH) has spoken: »I raised my children and helped them grow, but they have rebelled against me. ³ »The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!« ⁴ Woe to the sinful nation, people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who are corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah! They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from him. ⁵ Why do you still want to be beaten? Why do you continue to rebel? Your whole head is infected. Your whole heart is sick.

⁶ »I send him against a godless nation. I commission him against the people of my fury to capture booty and to seize plunder, and to trample them down like mud (clay) in the streets.

¹ This is what Jehovah 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.

¹ The hand of Jehovah is not too weak to save or his ear too deaf to hear. ² But your wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you. ³ Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers are desecrated with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things.

¹² You are aware of our many rebellious acts. Our sins testify against us. Our rebellious acts are with us. We know our iniquities. ¹³ We rebelled and denied Jehovah. We turned away from our God. We spoke about oppression and revolt. We conceived and uttered lies in our hearts. ¹⁴ Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot come in. ¹⁵ Truth is missing. Those who turn away from evil become victims. Jehovah sees it, and what he saw displeased him because there is no justice.

¹ It is said: »If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again.« The land would become completely polluted. »You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me!« Says Jehovah. ² »Lift up your eyes to the bare hills and see. You have had sex with men in every place. You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled (corrupted) (profaned) the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

⁵ »They will ask for the way to Zion turning their faces in its direction. They will come to join themselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

²⁰ ‘»Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why Jehovah has made their wealth repulsive to them. ²¹ ‘»I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it. ²² ‘»I will turn my face away from them. They will desecrate my treasured place. Robbers will enter it and desecrate it. ²³ ‘»Prepare chains for the land is full of bloodshed and the city full of violence. ²⁴ ‘»I will bring the wicked of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

¹³ ‘»»But the people of Israel rebelled against me in the desert. They did not live by my laws. They rejected my rules. If people obey them, they will live. They dishonored the days to worship me. So I was going to pour out my fury on them in the desert and completely wipe them out.

²⁴ »I did this because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, profaned the Sabbath, and worshiped the same idols their ancestors had served.

²⁴ »Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation (outrage) (revulsion). ²⁵ ‘»There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives. They have taken treasure and precious things. They have made many widows in the midst of her. ²⁶ ‘»Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the profane. They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. ²⁷ ‘»Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain. ²⁸ ‘»Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them. They see false visions and divine lies for them. They say: »This is what the Lord Jehovah says, when Jehovah has not spoken.« ²⁹ ‘»The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.’ ³⁰ ‘»I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one. ³¹ ‘»Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them! I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath (intense anger). / Their way I have brought upon their heads,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.«

²⁶ »‘»I will promise them peace. This will be a long lasting promise. I will establish them and make them increase in number. I will put my holy place among them for a very long time.

²⁵ ‘»He will speak words against the Most High (Supreme God) and wear down (afflict) (cause great distress) the holy ones of the Most High. He will think to change the times and law and will have control until a time and times and half a time. (Three and one-half years)

⁵ »We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

¹⁰ »We have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

¹⁰ »Get up and go because this is not your resting-place. Uncleanness brings on destruction, a painful destruction.

⁷ ‘They worship me in vain teaching as doctrines the commands of men.’« ⁸ Speaking to the Pharisees and scribes He said: »You abandon the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. ⁹ »You totally reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition.

⁶ They were both righteous before God. They blamelessly obeyed all the commandments and ordinances of God (Greek: kurios: God).

²⁰ For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it’s own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope. ²¹ The creation will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

¹ The first covenant had ordinances for divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,