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


In Context

2 A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

3 And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

4 And of these again shalt thou take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; therefrom shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

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

6 And she hath rebelled against my judgments in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have rejected my judgments, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because ye are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;

Ezekiel 5:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:5Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [is] Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] round about her.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:5"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:5Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are around her.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:5Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:5Thus said the Lord Jehovah: this is Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations I have set her, And round about her are the lands.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:5Thus said the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the middle of the nations and countries that are round about her.