Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 24:5

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

Heb. And the land, or, this land; for here is an emphatical Article in the Hebrew Text.

By the Wickedness of its People; of which see Levit. 18. 25, 27, Numb. 35. 33. &c.

The Laws of God revealed to them, and pressed upon them in a singular manner, called simply the laws, as the Word of God is oft-times called the word by way of eminency.

God's Ordinances concerning his Worship and Service; the Singular being put collectively for the Plural.

The Covenant made between God and Abraham, and all his Posterity, renewed with the Israelites at Sinai, which was everlasting, both on God's part, who, upon the Conditions therein expressed, engaged himself to be a God to them and to their Seed for ever; and on Israels part, who were obliged thereby to constant and perpetual Obedience through all Generations. All these Clauses clearly prove, that the earth or land which this Prophecy concerns, is no other than the Land of Israel and Iudah.

Marginal references: Gen. 3. 17.