Ezekiel 5:5 - Tree of Life Version Thus says Adonai Elohim: “This is Jerusalem! I have set her in the midst of the nations, with countries all around 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 Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Chop down her trees! Raise a siege ramp at Jerusalem. This city must be punished— in her midst is only oppression.
How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She who was once great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer.
Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect, through My splendor, which I bestowed on you.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
“Now you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you. Engrave on it a city, Jerusalem.
Again take some of them, throw them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. A fire will spread from it into all the house of Israel.”
For the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the forest beasts, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passed through, would trample and tear to pieces, and there would be no deliverer.
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
and all drank the same spiritual drink—for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the Rock was Messiah.
You must keep and do them, for it is your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
Like the nations Adonai makes perish before you, so you will perish, since you would not listen to the voice of Adonai your God.