For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion: How devastated we are. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land; our dwellings have been torn down.
Leviticus 18:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 lamentation is heard from Zion: How devastated we are. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land; our dwellings have been torn down.
‘ “This is what the Lord God says: Because some are saying to you, ‘You devour people and deprive your nation of children,’
‘Son of man, while the house of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions. Their behaviour before me was like menstrual impurity.
The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its iniquity, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
For the people who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable acts, and the land has become defiled.
Any person who does any of these detestable practices is to be cut off from his people.
‘You are to keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labour pains until now.
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of my mouth.