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.^(A)

⁷ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even^[a] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.^(A)

¹⁴ “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.^{(A) 15} You will be a reproach^(B) and a taunt, a warning^(C) and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.^(D) I the Lord have spoken.^(E)