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 - Revised Standard Version lest the land vomit you out, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was 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 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 men say to you, ‘You devour men, and you bereave your nation of children,’
“Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their doings; their conduct before me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
and the land became defiled, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
(for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled);
For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the persons that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now;
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.