American Standard Version
"Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her. "
— Ezekiel 5:5, American Standard Version
“Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.”
“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.”
““This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.”
“Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about her.”
“This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;”
“Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.”
A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
And of these again shalt thou take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; therefrom shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.
And she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against thee; and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.