Isaiah 24:5

New International Reader's Version

The earth is polluted by its people. They haven’t obeyed the laws of the Lord. They haven’t done what he told them to do. They’ve broken the covenant that will last forever.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

“Suppose my royal family was not right with God. Then he would not have made a covenant with me that will last forever. Every part of it was well prepared and made secure. Then God would not have saved me completely or given me everything I longed for.

2 Kings 21:12

I am the Lord, the God of Israel. I tell you, ‘I am going to bring trouble on Jerusalem and Judah. It will be so horrible that the ears of everyone who hears about it will tingle.

2 Kings 21:15

That’s because my people have done what is evil in my sight. They have made me very angry. They have done that from the day their own people came out of Egypt until this day.’ ”

2 Chronicles 33:9

But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray. They did more evil things than the nations the Lord had destroyed to make room for the Israelites.

Psalm 105:10

He made it stand as a law for Jacob. He made it stand as a covenant for Israel that will last forever.

Psalm 55:5

Fear and trembling have taken hold of me. Panic has overpowered me.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send them against the ungodly nation of Judah. I will order them to fight against my own people. My people make me angry. I will order Assyria to take their goods and carry them away. I will order Assyria to walk on my people as if they were walking on mud.

Isaiah 30:9

That’s because these people of Judah refuse to obey me. They are children who tell lies. They will not listen to what I want to teach them.

Isaiah 33:8

The wide roads are deserted. No one travels on them. Our peace treaty with Assyria is broken. Those who witnessed it are looked down on. No one is respected.

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says to the people in Jerusalem, “Do you think I divorced your people who lived before you? Is that why I sent them away? If it is, show me the letter of divorce. I did not sell you into slavery to pay someone I owe. You were sold because you sinned against me. Your people were sent away because of their lawless acts.

Isaiah 9:17

The Lord will not be pleased with the young men. He won’t take pity on widows and on children whose fathers have died. All of them are ungodly and evil. They say foolish things with their mouths. Even then, the Lord is still angry. His hand is still raised against them.

Jeremiah 11:10

All of them have returned to the sins their people of long ago committed. Those people refused to listen to what I told them. And now the people of Israel and Judah alike have worshiped other gods and served them. They have broken the covenant I made with their people who lived before them.

Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask how to get to Zion. Then they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to me. They will enter into the covenant I make with them. It will last forever. It will never be forgotten.

Ezekiel 16:59

The Lord and King says, “I will punish you in keeping with what you have done. I sealed with a promise the covenant I made with you. You hated that promise. And you broke my covenant.

Ezekiel 20:13

“ ‘ “But in the desert the people of Israel refused to obey me. They did not follow my rules. They turned their backs on my laws. The person who obeys them will live by them. They totally misused my Sabbath days. So I said I would pour out my great anger on them. I would destroy them in the desert.

Ezekiel 20:24

They had not obeyed my laws. They had turned their backs on my rules. They had misused my Sabbath days. They only wanted to worship the statues of their parents’ gods.

Ezekiel 37:26

I will make a covenant with them. It promises to give them peace. The covenant will last forever. I will make them my people. And I will cause there to be many of them. I will put my temple among them forever.

Daniel 7:25

He’ll speak against the Most High God. He’ll treat God’s holy people badly. He will try to change the times and laws that were given by God. God’s holy people will be placed under his power for three and a half years.

Daniel 9:10

You are the Lord our God. But we haven’t obeyed you. We haven’t kept the laws you gave us through your servants the prophets.

Daniel 9:5

We have sinned and done what is wrong. We have been evil. We have refused to obey you. We have turned away from your commands and laws.

Hosea 6:7

Just as at the city of Adam, they disobeyed me, they have broken the covenant I made with them. They were not faithful to me there.

Leviticus 20:22

“ ‘Obey all my rules and laws. Follow them. Then the land where I am bringing you to live will not throw you out.

Leviticus 26:35

The land will rest the whole time it is deserted. It was not able to rest during the sabbaths you lived in it.

Micah 2:10

Get up! Leave this land! It is no longer your resting place. You have made it ‘unclean.’ You have completely destroyed it.

Luke 1:6

Both of them did what was right in the sight of God. They obeyed all the Lord’s commands and rules faithfully.

Deuteronomy 32:15

When Israel grew fat, they became stubborn. When they were filled with food, they became fat and heavy. They left the God who made them. They turned away from the Rock who saved them.

Deuteronomy 32:20

“I will turn my face away from them,” he said. “I will see what will happen to them in the end. They are sinful people. They are unfaithful children.

Hebrews 13:20

Our Lord Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep. The God who gives peace brought him back from the dead. He did it because of the blood of the eternal covenant. Now may God

Hebrews 9:1

The first covenant had rules for worship. It also had a sacred tent on earth.

Joshua 23:16

Suppose you break the covenant the Lord your God made with you. He commanded you to obey it. But suppose you go and serve other gods. And you bow down to them. Then the Lord will be very angry with you. You will quickly be destroyed. You will be removed from the good land he has given you.”

Joshua 24:25

On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people. There at Shechem he reminded them of its rules and laws.