Parallel Verses
Youngs 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.
New American Standard Bible
“Thus says the Lord
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.
Holman Bible
“This is what the Lord God says: I have set this Jerusalem in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
International Standard Version
"This is what the Lord GOD says, "This is Jerusalem. I placed her in the center of nations, with many nations surrounding her.
A Conservative Version
Thus says lord LORD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about 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.
Amplified
“Thus says the Lord God, ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, and countries are around 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;
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: this is Jerusalem; I set her in the midst of the nations and lands round about her.
King James 2000
Thus says the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
Lexham Expanded 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.
Modern King James verseion
So says the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem. I have set it in the middle of the nations, and all around her are the lands.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover, thus said the LORD God, "This same is Jerusalem. I set her in the midst of the Heathen and nations that are round about her:
NET Bible
"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 Heart English Bible
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are around her.
The 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;
Webster
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that 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 around her.
Interlinear
Suwm
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 5:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel Dramatizes Jerusalem's Fall
4 and of them thou dost take again, and hast cast them unto the midst of the fire, and hast burned them in the fire -- out of it cometh forth a fire unto all the house of Israel. 5 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. 6 And she changeth My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that are round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes -- they have not walked in them.
Cross References
Ezekiel 4:1
And thou, son of man, take to thee a brick, and thou hast put it before thee, and hast graven on it a city -- Jerusalem,
Deuteronomy 4:6
and ye have kept and done them (for it is your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding is this great nation.
Jeremiah 6:6
For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Cut down her wood, And pour out against Jerusalem a mount, She is the city to be inspected, Wholly -- she is oppression in her midst.
Ezekiel 16:14
And go forth doth thy name among nations, Because of thy beauty -- for it is complete, In My honour that I have set upon thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
Micah 5:7
And the remnant of Jacob hath been in the midst of many peoples, As dew from Jehovah -- as showers on the herb, That waiteth not for man, nor stayeth for the sons of men.
Matthew 5:14
'Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid;
Luke 22:19-20
And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, 'This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye -- to remembrance of me.'
1 Corinthians 10:4
and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;