Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will [a]spread to all the house of Israel.

“Thus says the Lord [b]God, ‘This is (A)Jerusalem; I have set her at the (B)center of the nations, with lands around her. 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 [c]in My statutes.’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 5:4 Lit go out
  2. Ezekiel 5:5 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  3. Ezekiel 5:6 Lit in them, My statutes

Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire(A) and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel.

“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.(B) Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.(C)

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