Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.

King James Version

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Holman Bible

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.

International Standard Version

The earth lies defiled beneath its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

A Conservative Version

The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

American Standard Version

The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

Amplified

The earth also is polluted by its inhabitants, because they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Bible in Basic English

The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

Darby Translation

And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.

Julia Smith Translation

And the earth was polluted under its inhabitants, for they passed by the instructions, they changed the law, they broke the eternal covenant

King James 2000

The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes; they have broken [the] everlasting covenant.

Modern King James verseion

And the land is defiled under its people; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the everlasting covenant.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant.

NET Bible

The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.

New Heart English Bible

The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

The Emphasized Bible

Yea the earth itself is profaned under them who dwell therein, - For they have Set aside laws, Gone beyond statute, Broken an age-abiding covenant.

Webster

The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

World English Bible

The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

חנף 
Chaneph 
Usage: 11

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

the laws
תּרה תּורה 
Towrah 
law
Usage: 219

חלף 
Chalaph 
Usage: 28

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

Context Readings

The Judgment On The Earth

4 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish. 5 The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17-18

And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Genesis 6:11-13

Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 17:13-14

both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.

Leviticus 18:24-28

"Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,

Leviticus 20:22

"You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.

Numbers 35:33-34

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Deuteronomy 32:15

"But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 32:20

And he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Joshua 24:25

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.

2 Samuel 23:5

"For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?

2 Kings 17:7-23

And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods

2 Kings 22:13-17

"Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."

2 Kings 23:26-27

Still the LORD did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

2 Chronicles 33:9

Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.

Ezra 9:6-7

saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Psalm 55:5

Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

Psalm 105:10

which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

Psalm 106:36-39

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

Isaiah 1:2-5

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: "Childrenhave I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 10:6

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the LORD: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Isaiah 59:1-3

Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

Isaiah 59:12-15

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:

Jeremiah 3:1-2

"If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.'

Ezekiel 7:20-24

His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.

Ezekiel 20:24

because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.

Ezekiel 22:24-31

"Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.

Ezekiel 37:26

I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

Daniel 7:25

He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

Daniel 9:5

we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.

Daniel 9:10

and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Micah 2:10

Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.

Mark 7:7-9

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

Romans 8:20-21

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

Hebrews 9:1

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,

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