Isaiah 24:5
Context| NETBible | The earth is defiled by 1 its inhabitants, 2 for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, 3 and broken the permanent treaty. 4 |
| XREF | Ge 3:17,18; Ge 6:11-13; Ge 17:13,14; Le 18:24-28; Le 20:22; Nu 35:33,34; De 32:15,20; Jos 24:25; 2Sa 23:5; 2Ki 17:7-23; 2Ki 22:13-17; 2Ki 23:26,27; 2Ch 33:9; Ezr 9:6,7; Ps 55:5; Ps 105:10; Ps 106:36-39; Isa 1:2-5; Isa 50:1; Isa 59:1-3,12-15; Jer 3:1,2; Jer 50:5; Eze 7:20-24; Eze 20:13,24; Eze 22:24-31; Eze 37:26; Da 7:25; Da 9:5,10; Mic 2:10; Mr 7:7-9; Lu 1:6; Ro 8:20,21; Heb 9:1; Heb 13:20 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “beneath”; cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “under”; NAB “because of.” 2 sn Isa 26:21 suggests that the earth’s inhabitants defiled the earth by shedding the blood of their fellow human beings. See also Num 35:33-34, which assumes that bloodshed defiles a land. 3 tn Heb “moved past [the?] regulation.” 4 tn Or “everlasting covenant” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “the ancient covenant”; CEV “their agreement that was to last forever.” sn For a lengthy discussion of the identity of this covenant/treaty, see R. Chisholm, “The ‘Everlasting Covenant’ and the ‘City of Chaos’: Intentional Ambiguity and Irony in Isaiah 24,” CTR 6 (1993): 237-53. In this context, where judgment comes upon both the pagan nations and God’s covenant community, the phrase “permanent treaty” is intentionally ambiguous. For the nations this treaty is the Noahic mandate of Gen 9:1-7 with its specific stipulations and central regulation (Gen 9:7). By shedding blood, the warlike nations violated this treaty, which promotes population growth and prohibits murder. For Israel, which was also guilty of bloodshed (see Isa 1:15, 21; 4:4), this “permanent treaty” would refer more specifically to the Mosaic Law and its regulations prohibiting murder (Exod 20:13; Num 35:6-34), which are an extension of the Noahic mandate. |
