Ezekiel 5:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the centre of the nations, with countries all around her. ⁶ But she has rebelled against my ordinances and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries all around her, rejecting my ordinances and not following my statutes. ⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not followed my statutes or kept my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you;