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

“Your first forefather sinned,
And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.

Transgressing and denying the Lord,
And turning away from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

“Then they will go forth and look
On the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm will not die
And their fire will not be quenched;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”