Ezekiel 5:3-5

Good News Translation

³ Keep back a few hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes. ⁴ Then take a few of them out again, throw them in the fire, and let them burn up. From them fire will spread to the whole nation of Israel.”

⁵ The Sovereign Lord said, “Look at Jerusalem. I put her at the center of the world, with other countries all around her.