15 and they continued rejecting his regulations and his covenant+ that he had concluded with their forefathers and his reminders*+ with which he had warned them, and they went following vain idols+ and became vain+ themselves, even in imitation of the nations that were all around them, concerning whom Jehovah had commanded them not to do like them;+

5 And the very land has been polluted under its inhabitants,+ for they have bypassed the laws,+ changed the regulation,+ broken the indefinitely lasting covenant.+