Ezekiel 5:4-5

5:4 Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, ¹  and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

5:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

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¹ tn Heb “into the midst of” (so KJV, ASV). This phrase has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.