He saw the shallowness of its people and he knew that an impending judgment was soon to be poured out on it for its spiritual apostasy. Everyone on the earth is affected, in one way or another, by the city of Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre there is a mark on the floor, equidistant between the sepulchre and the place where the cross is supposed to have been. In Scripture, Jerusalem is the center of the earth geographically, North in the Bible is north of Jerusalem.
East is east of Jerusalem.
South is south of Jerusalem. And west is west of this city. He was speaking of mankind's greatest need. To be sure, we are hungry and need to be fed. We are naked and need to be clothed.