Ezekiel 5:3-7

Take also a few hairs in number from them and bind them in the hems of your robes.

Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

“This is what the Lord God says: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have placed her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because you have more turmoil than the nations that surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor executed My ordinances, nor acted in accordance with the ordinances of the nations around you,’