Vomit

The literal act of vomiting

Jonah 2:10

And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Proverbial references to vomiting

Proverbs 26:11 See also Proverbs 23:6–8, Proverbs 25:16–17; 2 Peter 2:17–22

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Metaphorical references to vomiting

An illustration of exile and destruction

Leviticus 18:24–28 See also Leviticus 20:22–24

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations— neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you. For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled. So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

An illustration of punishment

Isaiah 19:13–14 See also Jeremiah 25:15–29, Jeremiah 48:26

The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray. The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

An illustration of corruption

Isaiah 28:7–8

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments. For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

An illustration of the fate of the wicked

Job 20:12–15

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth, yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him. He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.