Ezekiel 5:3-5

Modern English Version

³ You shall also take a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your robes. ⁴ Then take some of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. For a fire shall come out into all the house of Israel.

⁵ Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst of the nations, with countries that are all around her.