Ezekiel 5:5-7

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁵ “Thus says the Lord ^[a]God, ‘This is ^(A)Jerusalem; I have set her at the ^(B)center of the nations, with lands around her. ⁶ But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes ^(C)more than the lands which surround her; for they have ^(D)rejected My ordinances and have not walked ^[b]in My statutes.’ ⁷ Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have ^(E)more turmoil than the nations which surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations which surround you,’