Ezekiel 5:5

Modern English Version

“Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst of the nations, with countries that are all around her.

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: Hew down trees and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in her midst.

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How she has become like a widow, who was once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!

Ezekiel 16:14

Then your renown went out among the nations for your beauty. For it was perfect through My comeliness which I had put upon you, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 4:1

You also, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you and inscribe a city on it, even Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 5:4

Then take some of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire, for a fire shall come out into all the house of Israel.

Micah 5:7

Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from the Lord, like showers upon the grass, which do not wait for a man and do not linger for the sons of men.

Matthew 5:14

“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

1 Corinthians 10:4

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

Deuteronomy 4:6

Therefore, keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Deuteronomy 8:20

Just like the nations which the Lord will destroy before you, so shall you perish because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.