lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, ‘You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’
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