Ezekiel 5:3-5

New American Standard Bible

³ Take also a few hairs in number from ^[a]them and bind them in the hems of your robes. ⁴ Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will ^[b]spread to all the house of Israel.

⁵ “This is what the Lord ^[c]God says: ‘This is ^(A)Jerusalem; I have placed her at the ^(B)center of the nations, with lands around her.