Ezekiel 5:3-5

New International Version

³ But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.^{(A) 4} Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire^(B) 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.^(C)