Ezekiel 5:5 - Revised Standard Version Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries round about her. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 The LORD God proclaims: This is Jerusalem! I have set her in the middle of the nations and surrounding countries. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries round about her. |
For thus says the Lord of hosts: “Hew down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city which must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.
How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal.
And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor which I had bestowed upon you, says the Lord God.
“And you, O son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem;
And of these again you shall take some, and cast them into the fire, and burn them in the fire; from there a fire will come forth into all the house of Israel.
Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers upon the grass, which tarry not for men nor wait for the sons of men.
and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.