5 “Thus says the Lord God: ^lThis is Jerusalem. I have set her ^min the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are ^omore turbulent than the nations that are all around you, ^pand have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, ^qand have not¹ even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,

14 Moreover, I will make you ^ga desolation and ^han object of reproach among ⁱthe nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You shall be¹ a reproach and a taunt, a warning ^jand a horror, to ⁱthe nations all around you, ^kwhen I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and ^lwith furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken—