Ezekiel 5:5
“¶ Thus saith the Lord God; This is Ierusalem: I haue set it in the midst of the nations and countreys that are round about her.”
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Ezekiel 5:5 Context
3Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. 4Then take of them againe, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burne them in the fire: for thereof shall a fire come foorth into all the house of Israel. 5¶ Thus saith the Lord God; This is Ierusalem: I haue set it in the midst of the nations and countreys that are round about her. 6And she hath changed my iudgements into wickednesse more then the nations, and my statutes more then the countreyes that are round about her: for they haue refused my iudgements and my statutes, they haue not walked in them. 7Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because yee multiplied more then the nations that are round about you, and haue not walked in my Statutes, neither haue kept my iudgments, neither haue done according to the iudgements of the nations that are round about you:
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Other Translations for Ezekiel 5:5
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [is] Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] round about her.
- King James Version
"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.
- American Standard Version (1901)
This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;
- Basic English Bible
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem: I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries are round about her.
- Darby Bible
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are around her.
- Webster's Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.
- World English Bible
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: this [is] Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations I have set her, And round about her [are] the lands.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Thus saith the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem! I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Ezekiel 5:5
5:5 This is Jerusalem - This portrayed city, is typically Jerusalem. The midst - Jerusalem was set in the midst of the nations, to be as the heart in the body, to invigorate the dead world with a divine life, as well as to enlighten the dark world with a divine light.