Ezekiel 5:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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

⁶ And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than the countries that are round about her: for they have cast off my judgments, and have not walked in my commandments.

⁷ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you: