If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the people who were there before you.
The sound of crying is heard from Zion. “We’re ruined! We’re very ashamed. We must leave our land because our homes have been torn down.”
“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: People say that you devour your people and take the children away from your nation.
“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they dishonored it by the way they lived and by everything they did. Their ways were as unclean as a woman’s menstrual period.
The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it.
The people of the land who were there before you did all these disgusting things. As a result, the land has become unclean.
Whoever does any of these disgusting things must be excluded from the people.
“If you carefully obey all my laws and my rules, the land I am bringing you to live in will not vomit you out.
We know that all creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time.
But since you are lukewarm and not hot or cold, I’m going to spit you out of my mouth.