²⁸ lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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

You Shall Be Holy

^22 (A)“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 ^(B)vomit you out.

²⁵ and the ^(A)land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land ^(B)vomited out its inhabitants.

^17 (A)“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, ^(B)they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were ^(C)like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.

²² For we know that ^(A)the whole creation ^(B)has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

¹³ Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, ^(A)‘You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’