²⁸ that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

²⁵ The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants.

²² "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.

¹⁹ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

¹³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You [land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;

¹⁷ Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

²² For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

¹⁶ So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.