Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 5:6

A church father on this verse
“(Version 5 and following) Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations, with the lands surrounding it; and it has despised my judgments, being more wicked than the nations, and my commandments more than the lands that surround it. For they have rejected my judgments and have not…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

6And thou shalt declare mine ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and my statutes to the sinful one of the countries round about her: because they have rejected mine ordinances, and have not walked in my statutes.

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4And thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire: from thence shall come forth fire; and thou shalt say to the whole house of Israel,

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

— Ezekiel 5:6 —

7Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because your occasion for sin has been taken from the nations round about you, and ye have not walked in my statutes, nor kept mine ordinances, nay, ye have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus saith the Lord;

8Behold, I am against thee, and I will execute judgment in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

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