Ecclesiasticus 24:5

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Et terra infecta est ab habitatoribus suis,
quia transgressi sunt leges,
mutaverunt jus,
dissipaverunt fœdus sempiternum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et terra infecta est ab habitatoribus suis, quia transgressi sunt leges, mutaverunt jus, dissipaverunt fœdus sempiternum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Et terra infecta est sub habitatoribus suis, quia transgressi sunt leges, violaverunt mandatum, dissipaverunt foedus sempiternum.

Bible Verse Review
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defiled: Genesis 3:17, Genesis 3:18, Genesis 6:11-13, Leviticus 18:24-28, Leviticus 20:22, Numbers 35:33, Numbers 35:34, 2 Chronicles 33:9, Psalms 106:36-39, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:2, Ezekiel 7:20-24, Ezekiel 22:24-31, Micah 2:10, Romans 8:20, Romans 8:21

because: Isaiah 1:2-5, Isaiah 50:1, Isaiah 59:1-3, Isaiah 59:12-15, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:20, 2 Kings 17:7-23, 2 Kings 22:13-17, 2 Kings 23:26, 2 Kings 23:27, Ezra 9:6, Ezra 9:7, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:24, Daniel 9:5, Daniel 9:10

changed: Joshua 24:25, Daniel 7:25, Mark 7:7-9, Luke 1:6, Hebrews 9:1

broken: Psalms 55:5, Genesis 17:13, Genesis 17:14, 2 Samuel 23:5, Psalms 105:10, Jeremiah 50:5, Ezekiel 37:26, Hebrews 13:20

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:25 - the land Leviticus 26:15 - break Leviticus 26:35 - General Deuteronomy 4:23 - lest ye forget Joshua 7:11 - transgressed 2 Chronicles 28:6 - because Psalms 106:39 - defiled Isaiah 26:10 - in the Jeremiah 16:18 - they have defiled Jeremiah 31:32 - which Jeremiah 32:40 - I will make Ezekiel 16:59 - which Ezekiel 36:17 - they defiled Ezekiel 44:7 - broken Hosea 4:2 - swearing Hosea 6:7 - transgressed Hosea 8:1 - transgressed Hosea 9:9 - deeply Zephaniah 1:17 - because Mark 7:9 - Full Hebrews 8:9 - they continued

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants of it,.... Or, "and the earth"; or, "for the earth is defiled" q; and so it is a reason why it is emptied and spoiled, because polluted and corrupted with the fornication of the whore of Rome, with her idolatries and superstitions, with which the inhabitants of the earth are defiled; or with her rapine and violence, cruelties, bloodshed, and murders; for blood defiles a land, Numbers 35:33 all which are committed by the inhabitants of the earth, subject to the see of Rome, by reason of which it may be said to be corrupted or defiled; so the phrase may be interpreted "for", or "because of the inhabitants of it": thus Jarchi and Kimchi, because of their wickedness and impieties; see

Revelation 11:18 or, "the earth is deceitful" r, or plays the hypocrite; promising and showing as if it would bring forth fruit, and brings forth none, but is barren and unfruitful, because of the sins of the inhabitants of it; see Revelation 18:14:

because they have transgressed the laws; of God and man, as antichrist and his followers have done; who is that wicked ανομος, that "lawless one", that sets up himself above laws, and takes upon him to dispense with the laws of God and man, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 and in innumerable instances has transgressed both, casting all contempt upon them, and bidding all defiance to them, as being not at all bound and obliged by them:

changed the ordinance; or "ordinances"; the singular for the plural, a collective word; the ordinances of divine revelation, of the Gospel dispensation, those of baptism, and the Lord's supper; the former of these is changed, both as to subjects and mode, from adult baptism to infant baptism, from immersion to aspersion; and the latter, in it the bread and wine are pretended to be changed into the very body and blood of Christ, and is only given in one kind to the laity, and made a real sacrifice of, when its end and use are only to commemorate the one sacrifice already offered up; moreover, by the "ordinance" may be meant the Scriptures, which are the חק, "the rule of judgment"; which antichrist has most miserably perverted, and has changed and altered the sense of them; taking upon him to be the infallible interpreter of them, and judge of all controversies, forbidding the reading of them to the people, and setting up his own decrees, definitions, and determinations, above them; and is "that throne of iniquity, that frameth mischief, by a law", or ordinance, of his own making, and which he puts in the room of the divine law or ordinance,

Psalms 94:20 where the same word is used as here; and he is that little horn, that thought to change times and laws, Daniel 7:25:

broken the everlasting covenant; not the eternal law of nature, nor the everlasting covenant of circumcision, or that made with Israel on mount Sinai; but the new covenant, or the administration of the covenant of grace under the Gospel dispensation, which is to last to the end of time, and lies in the ministration of the word, and administration of ordinances; which antichrist has done all that in his power lies to break, make null and void, by corrupting the word, and changing the ordinances, and setting up his own institutions above them, and against them.

q והארץ "et terra", V. L. "nam terra", Piscator. r חנפה "hypocrita est", Montanus, Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof - The statements in this verse are given as a reason why the curse had been pronounced against them, and why these calamities had come upon them, Isaiah 24:6. The first reason is, that the very earth become polluted by their crimes. This phrase may denote that injustice and cruelty prevailed to such an extent that the very earth was stained with gore, and covered with blood under the guilty population. So the phrase is used in Numbers 33:33; Psalms 106:38. Or it may mean in general that the wickedness of the people was great, and was accumulating, and the very earth under them was polluted by sustaining such a population. But the former is probably the correct interpretation.

Changed the ordinance - Or, the statute (חק chôq). This word, from חקק châqaq, to engrave, and then to make or institute a law or an ordinance, is usually applied to the positive statutes appointed by Moses. The word statute accurately expresses the idea. These they had changed by introducing new statutes, and had in fact, if not in form, repealed the laws of Moses, and introduced others.

Broken the everlasting covenant - The word ‘covenant’ here is evidently used, as it is often, in the sense of law. By the term ‘everlasting covenant,’ Vitringa correctly supposes is denoted the laws of nature, the immutable laws of justice and right, which are engraven on the conscience, and which are inflexible and perpetual.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 24:5. The laws - "The law"] תורה torah, singular: so read the Septuagint, Syriac, and Chaldee.