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.”
Leviticus 18:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Do none of these things] lest the land spew you out when you defile it as it spewed out the nation that was before you. American Standard Version (1901) that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. Common English Bible so that the land does not vomit you out because you have made it unclean, just as it vomited out the nations that were before you. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, beware, lest in a similar manner, it may vomit you out as well, if you do these same things, just as it vomited out the people who were before you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Beware then, lest in like manner it vomit you also out, if you do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you. |
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,”
Mortal, when the house of Israel lived on their own soil, they defiled it with their ways and their deeds; their conduct in my sight was like the uncleanness of a menstrual period.
Thus the land became defiled, and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
(for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);
For whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from their people.
“You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and observe them, so that the land to which I bring you to settle in may not vomit you out.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning together as it suffers together the pains of labor,
So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.