Ezekiel 5:5

5 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

Ezekiel 5:5 in Other Translations

KJV
5 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.
ESV
5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
NLT
5 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is an illustration of what will happen to Jerusalem. I placed her at the center of the nations,
MSG
5 "This is what God, the Master, says: This means Jerusalem. I set her at the center of the world, all the nations ranged around her.
CSB
5 "This is what the Lord God says: I have set this Jerusalem in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

Ezekiel 5:5 In-Context

3 But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.
4 Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel.
5 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
6 Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.
7 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even conformed to the standards of the nations around you.

Cross References 1

  • 1. S Deuteronomy 4:6; S Lamentations 1:1; Ezekiel 16:14
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