Ezekiel 5:5
King James Version
“Thus saith the Lord GOD; This Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries round about her.”
Context
2Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
3Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
5Thus saith the Lord GOD; This Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries round about her.
6And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
7Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that round about you, have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that round about you;
8Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.