Isaiah 24:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ As for the land, it transgressed by means of its inhabitants. Because they transgressed the law, and changed the institutions; the everlasting covenant,

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, "Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which alone I commanded thee not to eat, the ground is cursed by thy labours. With sorrows thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life. ¹⁸ Thorns and thistles it shall cause to spring up for thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field.

¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with iniquity. ¹² And God beheld the earth and it was corrupt. Because all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth; ¹³ therefore the Lord God said to Noe, "The time of every man is come before me. Because the earth is filled with iniquity by their means, therefore behold I am going to destroy them and the earth.

¹³ Thy home born servant and he who is bought shall surely be circumcised. And this my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴ And with regard to the uncircumcised male, the flesh of whose foreskin shall not be circumcised on the eighth day, that soul shall be cut off from its family, because it hath broken my covenant."

²⁴ Be not polluted with any such things; for with all such things have those nations been polluted, which I drive out before you, ²⁵ and the land hath been polluted, and for its sake I have retributed to them their iniquity, and the land is become a mortal enemy to them who dwell therein. ²⁶ You therefore shall keep all my institutions and all my ordinances; and none of you, neither the native, nor the proselyte who dwelleth among you, ²⁷ shall commit any of these abominations, which the men of the country who were before you have committed, and by which the land hath been polluted; ²⁸ that the land may not become a mortal enemy to you when you pollute it; as it hath been to those nations which were before you.

²² You shall keep all my statutes and my judgments and do them, that the land to which I am leading you to dwell therein, may not become your mortal enemy.

³³ So you will not pollute with blood the land in which you dwell; for this blood polluteth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed from the blood which is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. ³⁴ You must not defile the land in which you dwell; in which I dwell among you; for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

¹⁵ When Jacob had eaten and was filled, Then he who was beloved began to kick; He grew fat, waxed thick, and became corpulent, Then he forsook the God who made him; And apostatised from God his saviour.

²⁰ and said, I will turn away my face from them, And shew what shall befal them in the latter days. Because they are a perverse generation; Children, who have no faith in them;

²⁵ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and gave it to them as a law, and a solemn decision at Selo, before the tabernacle of the Lord God of Israel.

⁵ For is not my house thus with the Almighty? For he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Kept ready for every occasion; Because this is all my safety, and all my desire, That the transgressor may not flourish.

⁷ Now this came to pass, because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao king of Egypt; and had feared other gods, ⁸ and walked in the ordinances of the nations which the Lord had removed from before the Israelites. ⁹ Indeed with regard to the acts which the kings of Israel did and which the Israelites adopted; were they not in direct opposition to the Lord their God? ¹⁰ They built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watch tower to the fortified city; and erected for themselves pillars and bowers on every high hill, and under every shady tree; ¹¹ and there burned incense in all the high places, as the nations did which the Lord had removed from before them. Nay, they unhallowed and marked themselves to provoke the Lord to wrath; ¹² and served the idols, concerning which the Lord said to them, You shall not do such a thing for the Lord. ¹³ And though the Lord testified to Israel and to Juda by the ministry of all his prophets; of every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes and all my law which I enjoined on your fathers, and which I sent them by the ministry of my servants the prophets; ¹⁴ yet they hearkened not; but hardened their neck more than their fathers had done; ¹⁵ His testimonies which he gave them in charge, they did not keep; but walked after vanities and became vain, and followed the nations around them in the very things which the Lord commanded them not to do. ¹⁶ They forsook the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves a molten image; even two calves. And having made bowers, they worshipped the whole host of heaven, and served Baal. ¹⁷ They made their sons and their daughters to pass through fire, and used divination and practised augury. Indeed they sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to wrath. ¹⁸ And though the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his presence, and there was none left but only the tribe of Juda, ¹⁹ yet even then Juda did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God; but walked in the ordinances which Israel had made, and rejected the Lord. ²⁰ Therefore the Lord was angry with the whole race of Israel and shook them off, and delivered them into the hands of spoilers who ransacked them until he cast them out of his sight. ²¹ Because Israel, besides revolting from the house of David, made Jeroboam son of Nabat king; therefore Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord, and caused them to commit a great sin; ²² and the Israelites proceeded on in the sin of Jeroboam which he had caused them to commit; and departed not from it, ²³ until the Lord removed them from his presence, as he spoke by the ministry of all his servants the prophets. Now when Israel was removed from their own land to Assyria, where they continue to this day;

¹³ Go and inquire of the Lord concerning me and concerning all this people and concerning all Juda, and concerning the words of this book which is found. For great must be the wrath of the Lord which is kindled against us; because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book to do according to all that is written for us. ¹⁴ Accordingly Chelkias the priest went with Achikam and Achobar and Sapphan and Asaias to Olda the prophetess the mother of Sellem son of Thekuan, son of Aras the keeper of the wardrobe. Now she dwelt at Jerusalem in the Masena. And when they had spoken to her, ¹⁵ she said to them, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Say to the man who hath sent you to me, ¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord, Behold I am bringing evils on this place and on the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Juda hath read. ¹⁷ Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me by the works of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched.

²⁶ Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the fervency of his great wrath with which he was incensed against Juda at the provocations with which Manasses had provoked him. ²⁷ So the Lord said, I will remove Juda also from my presence as 1 have removed Israel; and I will cast off this city of Jerusalem which I chose, and this house of which I said, My name shall be there.

⁹ Now when Manasses had caused Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, and to do evil beyond all the nations which the Lord had destroyed from before the children of Israel;

⁶ I said: Lord, I blush, and am ashamed to lift up, O my God, my face to thee; because our iniquities are multiplied over our head, and our transgressions are heaped up to heaven. ⁷ From the days of our fathers we are in great transgression, even to this day. And for our inquities, we and our kings and our children, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the nations, to the sword and to captivity, and to spoiling, and to confusion of face, as at this day.

⁵ Fear and trembling came against me; and a dark gloom overwhelmed me.

¹⁰ which he confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;

³⁶ And served their graven images which became to them a stumbling block. ³⁷ They actually sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons: ³⁸ and shed innocent blood; the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the graven idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood and ³⁹ defiled by their works: and they went a whoring with their devices.

² Hearken, heaven! and hear earth! what the Lord hath spoken. "I have begotten children and brought them up; and they have rebelled against me. ³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel did not know me. And this people have not regarded me." ⁴ Ah! sinful nation; people full of sins! vile race! iniquitous children! you have utterly forsaken the Lord; and provoked to wrath the Holy One of Israel. ⁵ What! must you persisting in iniquity be smitten still more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint:

⁶ I will send this anger of mine to a lawless nation; and I will order this people of mine to gather spoil and take the prey, and to trample down cities and lay them in the dust.

¹ Thus saith the Lord, Of what sort was the bill of your mother's divorce with which I divorced her? Or to what creditor have I sold you? Behold you were sold for your transgressions; and for your iniquities I divorced your mother.

¹ It is not that the hand of the Lord is unable to save; nor that his ear is grown dull to hear; ² but your sins make a separation between you and your God; and on account of your sins he hath turned away his face from you that he may not exercise compassion. ³ For your hands are polluted with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips have spoken iniquity, and your tongue contriveth injustice.

¹² For our manifold iniquity is before thee; and our sins are risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our transgressions. ¹³ We have sinned: we have lied, and turned back from following our God; we have spoken things unjust, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and meditated from our heart lying words, ¹⁴ we have indeed turned judgment backward, therefore saving mercy standeth aloof." [p] Because truth was destroyed in their ways and; they could not walk in straight paths; ¹⁵ and truth was removed and they substituted opinion in place of knowledge, therefore the Lord took a view, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

¹ If a man divorce his wife and she depart from him and marry another, can she return again to him? would not such a wife be altogether polluted? Yet thou hast played the harlot with many shepherds and hast returned to me saith the Lord. ² Raise thine eyes, look forward and take a view! where is there a place in which thou hast not prostituted thyself? In the highways thou hast sat for them like a deserted daw, and polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wicked acts,

⁵ They will ask the way to Zion; for thitherward they will set their face; and they will come and flee to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.

²⁰ With their choice apparel which was laid by for ostentation; even with this they adorned the images of their abominations; therefore I have given it to them for defilement; ²¹ even into the hand of strangers I will deliver it for plunder, and to be a spoil for the ravagers of the earth; and they shall defile it. ²² And I will turn away my face from them; and they shall pollute the places under my peculiar inspection, and come into them unobserved, and profane them ²³ and make them an abomination. Because the land is full of peoples, and the city is full of iniquity; ²⁴ therefore I will turn back their tumultuous power, and their holy things shall be polluted.

¹³ And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, "Walk in my statutes, "but they walked not. They rejected my rules of rectitude, which if a man practise he shall live by them; and they profaned my sabbaths exceedingly: whereupon I spoke of pouring out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to destroy them utterly:

²⁴ Because they did not practise my rules of rectitude, but rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after the desires of their fathers;

²⁴ Son of man say to this land, Thou art a land which was not watered with showers; nor did rain fall upon thee in the day of indignation. ²⁵ Its princes in the midst of it were like roaring lions, ravening prey, devouring souls by oppression, yet receiving honours; and thy widows were multiplied in the midst of thee. ²⁶ Its priests also despised my law and profaned my holy things; between what was holy and what was profane they made no difference, nor did they distinguish between the unclean and the clean. And from my sabbaths they hid their eyes and I was profaned in the midst of them. ²⁷ Its chiefs in the midst of it were like wolves, ravening prey, to the shedding of innocent blood, that they may glut their greediness. ²⁸ They shall fall together with its prophets who anointed them, seeing vanities, prophesying lies, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Though the Lord did not speak, ²⁹ crushing by usurped authority the people of the land, and ravening prey, oppressing the poor and needy, and paying no regard to strangers to the administration of justice. ³⁰ Though I sought among them for a man of integrity and for one who stood uprightly before me in the time of indignation that I might utterly destroy it, yet I found none: ³¹ therefore I poured out my wrath upon it, to destroy it utterly with the fire of mine indignation. Their ways I have requited on their heads, saith the Lord, Lord.

²⁶ And I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them.

²⁵ and shall speak words against the Most High and wear out the holy ones of the Most High and think of changing times and law, and his shall be put in its power for a time and times and the half of a time.

⁵ we have committed iniquity; we have transgressed and apostatised and turned away from thy commandments, and from thy judgments,

¹⁰ and did not hearken to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he set before us by the ministry of his servants the prophets;

¹⁰ Arise and depart, for this is not a rest for thee. By reason of impurity you are utterly corrupted:

⁷ And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines, the commands of men. ⁸ For laying aside the commandment of God, you adhere to the doctrine of men; the dipping of cups, and drinking vessels, and many other things, of the like nature. ⁹ Indeed said he to them, You fairly annul the commandment of God to make room for this doctrine of yours.

⁶ They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking in all the commandments and precepts of the Lord, without blame.

²⁰ For to vanity this creation was subjected, not as a voluntary agent, but by him who subjected it to a hope ²¹ that this very creation shall be freed from the slavery of this corruption, that it may enjoy the glorious liberty of the children of God.

¹ Now then the first covenant had the ordinances of divine service and the worldly sanctuary;

²⁰ Now may the God of this peace, who raised from the dead the shepherd of the flock, who is great by the blood of an everlasting covenant, namely, our Lord Jesus,