Ezekiel 5:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; in the center of the nations I have set her, and countries are round about her.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.

Common English Bible

⁵ The LORD God proclaims: This is Jerusalem! I have set her in the middle of the nations and surrounding countries.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Thus says the Lord God: "This is Jerusalem. I have placed her in the midst of the Gentiles and of the lands all around her.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries round about her.

Ezekiel 5:5 Cross References

Psalm 87:3

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah

Jeremiah 6:6

For thus says the Lord of hosts: Cut down her trees; cast up a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become subject to forced labor.

Ezekiel 16:14

Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my splendor that I had bestowed on you, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 4:1

“And you, O mortal, take a brick and set it before you. On it portray a city, Jerusalem,

Ezekiel 5:4

From these, again, you shall take some, throw them into the fire and burn them up; from there a fire will come out against all the house of Israel.

Micah 5:7

Then the remnant of Jacob, surrounded by many peoples, shall be like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which do not depend upon people or wait for any mortal.

Matthew 5:14

“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.

1 Corinthians 10:4

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Deuteronomy 4:6

You must observe them and perform them, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!’

Deuteronomy 8:20

Like the nations that the Lord is destroying before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.