Ezekiel 5:5-7

International Standard Version

Jerusalem’s Desolation Predicted

⁵ “This is what the Lord God says, ‘This is Jerusalem. I placed her in the center of nations, with many^[a] nations surrounding her. ⁶ But she rebelled against my ordinances and my statutes. She practiced more evil than all the nations and territories around her. They rejected my ordinances and didn’t live by^[b] my statutes.’

⁷ “Therefore this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because you’re more disrespectful than the nations that surround you, you didn’t follow my statutes or follow my ordinances. You didn’t even follow the ordinances of the surrounding nations!’