Ezekiel 5:3-5

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³ Then you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the hem of your robe.^{(A) 4} From these, again, you shall take some, throw them into the fire and burn them up; from there a fire will come out against all the house of Israel.^(B)

⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.^(C)