Ezekiel 5:5

“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.”

"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." - Ezekiel 5:5
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What does Ezekiel 5:5 mean?

Ezekiel 5:5 (KJV) states, "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." This verse comes from the book of Ezekiel, which is a prophetic book in the Old Testament. Ezekiel was a prophet during the…

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Jerusalem: A Divine Center of Hope and Purpose

Ezekiel 5:5 states, "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." This proclamation by God through the prophet Ezekiel serves as a profound reminder of Jerusalem’s significant role in the divine…

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A Prayer for Jerusalem and Its Promised Place Among the Nations

O Great and Mighty God, Lord of all creation, we come before You today with our hearts open and our spirits yearning to understand Your divine plans and purposes. Your Word declares in Ezekiel 5:5, "Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the…

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Ezekiel 5:5 - "¶ 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."
Ezekiel 18:5 - "¶ But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,"
Ezekiel 12:5 - "Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby."
Ezekiel 38:5 - "Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:"
Ezekiel 7:5 - "Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come."
Ezekiel 14:5 (KJVA) 5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Ezekiel 3:5 - "For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;"
Ezekiel 32:5 - "And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height."
Ezekiel 48:5 - "And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim."
Ezekiel 5:3 - "Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts."
Ezekiel 34:5 - "And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered."
Ezekiel 39:5 - "Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 19:5 (KJVA) 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
Ezekiel 23:5 - "And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,"
Ezekiel 10:5 - "And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh."
Ezekiel 1:5 - "Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man."
Ezekiel 2:5 - "And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them."
Ezekiel 43:5 - "So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house."
Ezekiel 25:5 - "And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 42:5 - "Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building."
Ezekiel 30:5 - "Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword."
Ezekiel 5:14 - "Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by."
Ezekiel 22:5 - "Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed."
Ezekiel 14:5 - "That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols."
"¶ But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right," - Ezekiel 18:5
Ezekiel 37:5 - "Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:"
Ezekiel 46:5 - "And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah."
Ezekiel 17:5 - "He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree."
Ezekiel 13:5 - "Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD."