Isaiah 24:5 Cross References
Isaiah 24:5
5: The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted the instructions of God, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant.
Hebrews 13:20
- And now, may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, all that is pleasing to him. Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep by an everlasting covenant, signed with his blood. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Romans 8:20
- Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God's curse.
- All creation anticipates the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
Daniel 7:25
- He will defy the Most High and wear down the holy people of the Most High. He will try to change their sacred festivals and laws, and they will be placed under his control for a time, times, and half a time.
Hebrews 9:1
- Now in that first covenant between God and Israel, there were regulations for worship and a sacred tent here on earth.
Genesis 3:17
- And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
- It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
Numbers 35:33
- This will ensure that the land where you live will not be polluted, for murder pollutes the land. And no atonement can be made for murder except by the execution of the murderer.
- You must not defile the land where you are going to live, for I live there myself. I am the LORD, who lives among the people of Israel.'"
Luke 1:6
- Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous in God's eyes, careful to obey all of the Lord's commandments and regulations.
Isaiah 50:1
- The LORD asks, "Did I sell you as slaves to my creditors? Is that why you are not here? Is your mother gone because I divorced her and sent her away? No, you went away as captives because of your sins. And your mother, too, was taken because of your sins.
Leviticus 18:24
- "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the people I am expelling from the Promised Land have defiled themselves.
- As a result, the entire land has become defiled. That is why I am punishing the people who live there, and the land will soon vomit them out.
- You must strictly obey all of my laws and regulations, and you must not do any of these detestable things. This applies both to you who are Israelites by birth and to the foreigners living among you.
- "All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and the land has become defiled.
- Do not give the land a reason to vomit you out for defiling it, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.
Micah 2:10
- Up! Begone! This is no longer your land and home, for you have filled it with sin and ruined it completely.
Deuteronomy 32:20
- He said, `I will abandon them; I will see to their end! For they are a twisted generation, children without integrity.
Isaiah 10:6
- Assyria will enslave my people, who are a godless nation. It will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.
Psalms 55:5
- Fear and trembling overwhelm me. I can't stop shaking.
Mark 7:7
- 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away. Their worship is a farce, for they replace God's commands with their own man-made teachings.'
- For you ignore God's specific laws and substitute your own traditions."
- Then he said, "You reject God's laws in order to hold on to your own traditions.
Leviticus 20:22
- "You must carefully obey all my laws and regulations; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you will vomit you out.
Ezekiel 20:24
- because they did not obey my laws. They scorned my instructions by violating my Sabbath days and longing for the idols of their ancestors.
Ezekiel 22:24
- "Son of man, give the people of Israel this message: In the day of my indignation, you will become like an uncleared wilderness or a desert without rain.
- Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They increase the number of widows in the land.
- Your priests have violated my laws and defiled my holy things. To them there is no difference between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that my holy name is greatly dishonored among them.
- Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!
- And your prophets announce false visions and speak false messages. They say, `My message is from the Sovereign LORD,' when the LORD hasn't spoken a single word to them. They repair cracked walls with whitewash!
Isaiah 1:2
- Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! This is what the LORD says: "The children I raised and cared for have turned against me.
- Even the animals--the donkey and the ox--know their owner and appreciate his care, but not my people Israel. No matter what I do for them, they still do not understand."
- Oh, what a sinful nation they are! They are loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil and corrupt children who have turned away from the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel, cutting themselves off from his help.
- Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.
Ezra 9:6
- I prayed, "O my God, I am utterly ashamed; I blush to lift up my face to you. For our sins are piled higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
- Our whole history has been one of great sin. That is why we and our kings and our priests have been at the mercy of the pagan kings of the land. We have been killed, captured, robbed, and disgraced, just as we are today.
Jeremiah 50:5
- They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the LORD with an eternal covenant that will never again be broken.
2 Samuel 23:5
- "It is my family God has chosen! Yes, he has made an everlasting covenant with me. His agreement is eternal, final, sealed. He will constantly look after my safety and success.
2 Kings 22:13
- "Go to the Temple and speak to the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah. Ask him about the words written in this scroll that has been found. The LORD's anger is burning against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the words in this scroll. We have not been doing what this scroll says we must do."
- So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to the newer Mishneh section of Jerusalem to consult with the prophet Huldah. She was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah and grandson of Harhas, the keeper of the Temple wardrobe.
- She said to them, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken! Go and tell the man who sent you,
- `This is what the LORD says: I will destroy this city and its people, just as I stated in the scroll you read.
- For my people have abandoned me and worshiped pagan gods, and I am very angry with them for everything they have done. My anger is burning against this place, and it will not be quenched.'
Genesis 6:11
- Now the earth had become corrupt in God's sight, and it was filled with violence.
- God observed all this corruption in the world, and he saw violence and depravity everywhere.
- So God said to Noah, "I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Yes, I will wipe them all from the face of the earth!
Deuteronomy 32:15
- But Israel soon became fat and unruly; the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed! Then they abandoned the God who had made them; they made light of the Rock of their salvation.
Genesis 17:13
- All must be circumcised. Your bodies will thus bear the mark of my everlasting covenant.
- Anyone who refuses to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for violating the covenant."
Daniel 9:10
- We have not obeyed the LORD our God, for we have not followed the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.
Psalms 105:10
- He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to the people of Israel as a never-ending treaty:
Isaiah 59:12
- For our sins are piled up before God and testify against us. Yes, we know what sinners we are.
- We know that we have rebelled against the LORD. We have turned our backs on God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
- Our courts oppose people who are righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth falls dead in the streets, and fairness has been outlawed.
- Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who tries to live a godly life is soon attacked. The LORD looked and was displeased to find that there was no justice.
Ezekiel 20:13
- "But the people of Israel rebelled against me, and they refused to obey my laws there in the wilderness. They wouldn't obey my instructions even though obedience would have given them life. And they also violated my Sabbath days. So I threatened to pour out my fury on them, and I made plans to utterly consume them in the desert.
2 Chronicles 33:9
- But Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem to do even more evil than the pagan nations whom the LORD had destroyed when the Israelites entered the land.
Isaiah 59:1
- Listen! The LORD is not too weak to save you, and he is not becoming deaf. He can hear you when you call.
- But there is a problem--your sins have cut you off from God. Because of your sin, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.
- Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your mouth is full of lies, and your lips are tainted with corruption.
2 Kings 17:7
- This disaster came upon the nation of Israel because the people worshiped other gods, sinning against the LORD their God, who had brought them safely out of their slavery in Egypt.
- They had imitated the practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land before them, as well as the practices the kings of Israel had introduced.
- The people of Israel had also secretly done many things that were not pleasing to the LORD their God. They built pagan shrines for themselves in all their towns, from the smallest outpost to the largest walled city.
- They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles at the top of every hill and under every green tree.
- They burned incense at the shrines, just like the nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of them. So the people of Israel had done many evil things, arousing the LORD's anger.
Psalms 106:36
- They worshiped their idols, and this led to their downfall.
- They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
- They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.
- They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD's sight.
Joshua 24:25
- So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day at Shechem, committing them to a permanent and binding contract between themselves and the LORD.
2 Kings 23:26
- Even so, the LORD's anger burned against Judah because of all the great evils of King Manasseh, and he did not hold back his fierce anger from them.
- For the LORD had said, "I will destroy Judah just as I have destroyed Israel. I will banish the people from my presence and reject my chosen city of Jerusalem and the Temple where my name was to be honored."
Ezekiel 7:20
- They were proud of their gold jewelry and used it to make vile and detestable idols. That is why I will make all their wealth disgusting to them.
- I will give it as plunder to foreigners from the most wicked of nations, and they will defile it.
- I will hide my eyes as these robbers invade my treasured land and corrupt it.
- "Prepare chains for my people, for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes. Jerusalem is filled with violence.
- I will bring the most ruthless of nations to occupy their homes. I will break down their proud fortresses and defile their sanctuaries.
Jeremiah 3:1
- "If a man divorces a woman and she marries someone else, he is not to take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, says the LORD. Yet I am still calling you to come back to me.
- "Look all around you. Is there anywhere in the entire land where you have not been defiled by your adulteries? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a client. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
Ezekiel 37:26
- And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. I will give them their land and multiply them, and I will put my Temple among them forever.
Daniel 9:5
- But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.