²⁸ That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

¹⁶ So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

²² For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

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

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