‘So let not the land vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
“So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am going to vomit you out of My mouth.
‘And you shall guard all My laws and all My right-rulings, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to dwell does not vomit you out.
‘Thus the land became defiled, therefore I punished it for its crookedness, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
“Son of man, when the house of Yisra’ĕ
For we know that all the creation groans together, and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
“For a voice of wailing is heard from Tsiyon, ‘How we are ravaged! We are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because we have been thrown out of our dwellings.’ ”
‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Because they say to you, ‘You devour men and have bereaved your nation,’
because the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and thus the land became defiled,
‘For whoever does any of these abominations, those beings who do them shall be cut off from among their people.