And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Parallel translations
- WEB The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
- BSB Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
- NKJV For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
- NASB For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
- NLT Because the entire land has become defiled, I am punishing the people who live there. I will cause the land to vomit them out.
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The land itself was defiled, so God punished it and it vomited out its inhabitants.
Overview
The vivid image of the land vomiting out its people portrays moral corruption as so polluting that creation itself rejects it. God's judgment on the Canaanites was the consequence of their persistent sin. This sobering picture warns that no people, however privileged, can sin without consequence before the holy Judge of all the earth.
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- Lev 18:28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
- Jer 2:7And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
- Lev 20:22–23Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
- Jer 9:9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Ps 106:38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
- Num 35:33–34So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
- Jer 5:29Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jer 14:10Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
- Jer 23:2Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
- Jer 16:18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
- Jer 5:9Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Deut 18:12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
- Isa 26:21For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
- Hos 2:13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
- Ezek 36:17–18Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
- Ps 89:32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Isa 24:5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
- Hos 8:13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
- Hos 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
- Deut 9:5Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Rom 8:22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
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