Jerusalem's Guilt and Future Judgment Is Spelled Out.
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her, and she has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statues more than the countries round about her, for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes they have not walked in them.” '
‘This is Jerusalem' was referring to Ezekiel's model and confirming which city it represented. Because she was Yahweh's inheritance she was central to all the nations, the one of central importance, with Assyria and Babylon to the north, Egypt and the Sudan to the south, the sea, and the countries beyond the sea from which the Philistines had come, to the west, and Arabia to the east. No wonder she saw herself as the centre of the world (see Ezekiel 38:12 where she is called ‘the navel of the earth'), and God described her in her own terms. But such a privileged position had given her responsibilities. And she had failed in those responsibilities.
The ‘ordinances' and ‘statutes' refer to the body of Law that Israel had been given, and probably include some of the prophetic writings. But these had simply made them multiply evil. Their very privilege made their disobedience more heinous. And even by the standards of the surrounding nations they were more sinful than other nations. This was a sign that they had wholeheartedly rejected His ordinances and commandments. They were disobedient rebels.