²⁸ So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

²⁵ And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

²² So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.

¹⁹ For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

¹³ This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;

¹⁷ Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.

²² For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

¹⁶ So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.