²⁸ So do not defile the land and give it a reason to vomit you out, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.

²² For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

¹⁷ “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by the evil way they lived. To me their conduct was as unclean as a woman’s menstrual cloth.

²² “You must keep all my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you as your new home will vomit you out.

²⁵ Because the entire land has become defiled, I am punishing the people who live there. I will cause the land to vomit them out.

¹³ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The other nations taunt you, saying, ‘Israel is a land that devours its own people and robs them of their children!’