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] 7} Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Because you have outdone the nations around you, and you have not walked in my statutes, and you have not performed what I judged to be right, and you have not^[c] even acted according to the standards of justice followed by the nations around you,