World English Bible
"Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her."
— Ezekiel 5:5, World English Bible
“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 saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about 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 you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.
She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.