Numbers 35:33-34
35:33 “You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
35:34 Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the Lord live among the Israelites.”
Psalms 106:38
106:38 They shed innocent blood –
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
The land was polluted by bloodshed.
Isaiah 24:5
24:5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants,
for they have violated laws,
disregarded the regulation,
and broken the permanent treaty.
Jeremiah 2:7
2:7 I brought you into a fertile land
so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty.
But when you entered my land, you defiled it;
you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.
Jeremiah 16:18
16:18 Before I restore them
I will punish them in full
for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own
with their detestable idols.”
Ezekiel 36:17-18
36:17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior
and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.
36:18 So I poured my anger on them
because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.
Romans 8:22
8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.