Ezekiel 5:4-6

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁴ Then take some of those and throw them into the middle of the fire and burn them up in the fire. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

⁵ This is what the Lord God says. This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations, and all around her there are other countries. ⁶ But she rebelled against my ordinances,^[a] becoming more wicked than the nations, and she rebelled against my statutes more than the countries around her did, because the Israelites rejected my ordinances, and they did not walk in my statutes.^[b]