Ezekiel 5:4-6

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ And of these again you shall take some, and cast them into the fire, and burn them in the fire; from there a fire will come forth into all the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries round about her. ⁶ And she has wickedly rebelled against my ordinances^[a] more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries round about her, by rejecting my ordinances and not walking in my statutes.