Jezekiel 5:5

5 Thus saith the Lord; This is Jerusalem: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of the nations.

Jezekiel 5:5 In-Context

3 And thou shalt take thence a few in number, and shalt wrap them in the fold of thy garment.

4 And thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire: from thence shall come forth fire; and thou shalt say to the whole house of Israel,

5 Thus saith the Lord; This is Jerusalem: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of the nations.

6 And thou shalt declare mine ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and my statutes of the countries round about her: because they have rejected mine ordinances, and have not walked in my statutes.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because your occasion from the nations round about you, and ye have not walked in my statutes, nor kept mine ordinances, nay, ye have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus saith the Lord;