Ezekiel 5:5

Bishop's Bible

Moreouer, thus saith the Lorde God: This same is Hierusalem, which I set in the middest of nations, and countreis rounde about her.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“This is what the Lord God says: I have set this Jerusalem in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

Hebrew Names Version
Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Yerushalayim; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
"Thus says the Lord God : This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

New American Standard Bible
"This is what the Lord GOD says: 'This is Jerusalem; I have placed her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

New Century Version
"This is what the Lord God says: This is Jerusalem. I have put her at the center of the nations with countries all around her.

Amplified Bible
"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, and countries are around her.

World English Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus saith the Lorde God, This is Ierusalem: I haue set it in the middes of the nations and countreyes, that are rounde about her.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands all around her.

Berean Standard Bible
This is what the Lord GOD says: 'This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

Contemporary English Version
I am the Lord God, and I have made Jerusalem the most important place in the world, and all other nations admire it.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Here is what Adonai Elohim , says: ‘This is Yerushalayim! I have placed her in the middle of the nations; countries can be found all around her.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord God said to me, "The brick is a picture of Jerusalem. I put Jerusalem in the middle of other nations with countries all around her.

George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, with all the cities round about her.

Good News Translation
The Sovereign Lord said, "Look at Jerusalem. I put her at the center of the world, with other countries all around her.

Lexham English Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem in the midst of the nations where I have put her, and countries are around her.

Literal Translation
So says the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations, and all around her are the lands.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer, thus sayde the LORDE God: This same is Ierusalem. I set her in the middest of the Heithen and nacions, that are rounde aboute her,

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

Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus saith the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem! I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.

King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord God; This is Ierusalem: I haue set it in the midst of the nations and countreys that are round about her.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus saith the Lord; This is Jerusalem: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of the nations.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God seith these thingis, This is Jerusalem; Y haue sette it in the myddis of hethene men, and londis in the cumpas therof.

Update Bible Version
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [is] Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] around her.

New English Translation
"This is what the sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

New King James Version
"Thus says the Lord GOD: "This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her.

New Living Translation
"This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is an illustration of what will happen to Jerusalem. I placed her at the center of the nations,

New Life Bible
The Lord God says, ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with lands around her.

New Revised Standard
Thus says the Lord God : This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, This, is Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations, I placed her, - and of the countries round about her;

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

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.

Young's Literal Translation
Thus 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 MESSAGE
"This is what God , the Master, says: This means Jerusalem. I set her at the center of the world, all the nations ranged around her. But she rebelled against my laws and ordinances, rebelled far worse than the nations ranged around her—sheer wickedness!—refused my guidance, ignored my directions.

Contextual Overview

⁵ Moreouer, thus saith the Lorde God: This same is Hierusalem, which I set in the middest of nations, and countreis rounde about her. ⁶ But she hath chaunged my iudgementes into wickednesse more then the nations, and my statutes more then the countreis that are rounde about her: for they haue refused my iudgementes and my statutes, and not walked in them. ⁷ Therfore thus saith the Lorde God: For your multiplying more then the gentiles that dwell rounde about you, and because ye haue not walked in my lawes, neither haue ye kept my ordinaunces, no ye haue not done accordyng to the iudgementes of the nations that are rounde about you: ⁸ Therfore thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde I will also come agaynst thee, I my selfe I say: for in the middest of thee wyll I execute iudgement in the sight of the heathen. ⁹ And I wyll handle thee of such a fashion as I neuer did before, & as I will neuer do from that tyme foorth, and that because of all thine abhominations. ¹⁰ For in thee the fathers shalbe fayne to eate their owne sonnes, and the sonnes their owne fathers, I wyll execute iudgement in thee, and the whole remnaunt of thee wyll I scatter into all the wyndes. ¹¹ Wherfore, as truely as I lyue saith the Lorde God, seyng thou hast defiled my sanctuarie with all maner of abhominations, and with all shamefull offences: For this cause will I also destroy thee, mine eye shall not spare thee, neither wyll I haue any pitie. ¹² One thirde part within thee shall dye of the pestilence and be consumed of hunger, another thirde part shalbe slayne downe rounde about thee with the sworde, the other thirde part that remayneth, wyll I scatter abrode towarde all the wyndes, and drawe out a sworde after them. ¹³ Thus wyll I perfourme mine indignation, & make my wrath to settle vpon them, and I will be comforted: so that when I haue fulfylled myne anger agaynst them, they shall knowe that I am the Lorde, which with a seruent gelousie haue spoken it. ¹⁴ Moreouer, I wyll make thee waste and reuiled among all the heathen that dwell about thee, in the sight of all them that go by thee.

Bible Verse Review
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This: Ezekiel 4:1, Jeremiah 6:6, Luke 22:19, Luke 22:20, 1 Corinthians 10:4

I have: Ezekiel 16:14, Deuteronomy 4:6, Micah 5:7, Matthew 5:14

Reciprocal: Matthew 26:26 - this

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.

Genesis 5:7
And Seth lyued after he begat Enos eyght hundreth and seuen yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:8
And all the dayes of Seth were nine hundreth & twelue yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:10
And Enos lyued after he begate Kenan eyght hundreth & fiftie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:11
And all the dayes of Enos were nine hundreth & fyue yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:12
Kenan lyued seuentie yeres, and begate Mahalaleel.

Genesis 5:14
And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:21
Henoch lyued sixtie and fiue yeres, & begate Methuselah.

Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.

Genesis 5:32
Noah was fiue hundreth yere olde, & Noah begate Sem, Ham, & Iapheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord God, this [is] Jerusalem,.... A type or sign of it; it may refer to both the former and latter type. It is the city of Jerusalem that is designed by the city portrayed upon the tile; and the same is signified by the head of the prophet that was to be shaved; that being not only the chief city of Judea, but of the whole world, as follows:

I have set it in the midst of the nations; as the chief of them; and distinguished it from them by peculiar favours and blessings, natural and spiritual; being seated in a land flowing with milk and honey; and having the house and worship of God in it; and where were the symbols of his presence, and his word and ordinances; and therefore should have excelled them in true religion, devotion, and holiness, and set an example to them. The Jews generally understand this of the natural situation of Jerusalem. Jarchi interprets it of the middle of the world; as if it was mathematically placed in the centre of the earth. Kimchi says it was in the midst of the continent; and so its air was better than others; and these sort of writers n often speak of the land of Israel being in the navel or centre of the earth; they say o that the sanhedrim sat in the middle of the world; and therefore is compared to the navel, Song of Solomon 7:2; because it sat in the temple, which was in the middle of the world; but the former sense is best; though Jerom gives in to the latter:

and countries [that are] round about her: this is a proposition of itself; fire former clause being distinguished from it by the accent "athnach"; and should be rendered thus, "and the countries [are]", or "[were], round about her" p; on the east was Asia, on the west Europe on the south Africa and Libya, and on the north Babylon, Scythia, Armenia, Persia, and Pontus; and was mere conspicuous, eminent, and honourable than them all, having greater privileges, prerogatives, and excellencies; and therefore should have exceeded them in its regard to the laws and statutes of God, which she did not; hence this is said, in order to upbraid her for her ingratitude, as appears by the following words.

n Kimchi in Ezek. xxxviii. 12. o T. Bab. Sanhedrin. fol. 37. 1. & Gloss. in ib. p וסביבותיה ארצות "et circa eam [erant] terrae", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have set it in the midst of the nations - It was not unusual for nations to regard the sanctuary, which they most revered, as the center of the earth. In the case of the holy land this was both natural and appropriate. Egypt to the south, Syria to the north, Assyria to the east and the Isles of the Gentiles in the Great Sea to the west, were to the Jew proofs of the central position of his land in the midst of the nations (compare Jeremiah 3:19). The habitation assigned to the chosen people was suitable at the first for separating them from the nations; then for the seat of the vast dominion and commerce of Solomon; then, when they learned from their neighbors idol-worship, their central position was the source of their punishment. Midway between the mighty empires of Egypt and Assyria the holy land became a battlefield for the two powers, and suffered alternately from each as for the time the one or the other became predominant.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 5:5. This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations — I have made this city the most eminent and the most illustrious in the world. Some think that these words refer to its geographical situation, as being equally in the centre of the habitable world. But any point on a globe is its centre, no matter where laid down; and it would not be difficult to show that even this literal sense is tolerably correct. But the point which is the centre of the greatest portion of land that can be exhibited on one hemisphere is the capital of the British empire. See my Sermon on the universal spread of the Gospel.