The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
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Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Le pays était profané par ses habitants; Car ils transgressaient les lois, violaient les ordonnances, Ils rompaient l'alliance éternelle.
KJV
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
nst him." Therefore the precepts of the decalogue are dispensable. On the contrary, are the words of Is. 24:5, where some are reproved for that "they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant"; which, seemingly, apply principally to the precepts of the…
John of Ephesus
Ecclesiastical History
, it dwelt in mourning […] the earth has become like its inhabitants”: This is an exact quotation of Isaiah 24:4–5 (Brock 1987, 39). Chapter 24 of the Book of Isaiah contains a curse of God on the earth and its inhabitants as a result of their continued disobedience, followed by…
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