Isaiah 24:6

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

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that the Earth itself bears the consequences of human sin and rebellion against divine law. The pollution extends not just to individuals but to the very land, indicating a deep spiritual and moral corruption that affects all creation.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Therefore hath the curse devoured -Eaten it up; a figurative expression that is common in the Scriptures, denoting that the desolation is widespread and ruinous. Are burned -(חרוּchârû). Instead of this reading, Lowth proposes to read:חרבוּchârebû‘Are destroyed.’ The Septuagint reads it, ‘Therefore the inhabitants of the land shall be poor.’ The Syriac, ‘The inhabitants of the land shall be slain.’ But there is no authority from the manuscripts to change the text as proposed by Lowth, Nor is it necessary. The prophet does not mean that the inhabitants of the land were consumed by fire. The expression is evidently figurative.

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