Ezekiel 15

Ezekiel 15

The Useless Vine

1The word of the Lord came to me:

2O mortal, how does the wood of the vine surpass all other wood,[#Isa 5.1–7; Jer 2.21; Hos 10.1]

the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest?

3Is wood taken from it to make anything?

Does one take a peg from it on which to hang any object?

4It is put in the fire for fuel;[#v 6 ; Ezek 19.14; Jn 15.6]

when the fire has consumed both ends of it

and the middle of it is charred,

is it useful for anything?

5When it was whole it was used for nothing;

how much less—when the fire has consumed it,

and it is charred—

can it ever be used for anything!

6Therefore thus says the Lord God : Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.[#v 2 ; Ezek 17.3–10]

7I will set my face against them; although they escape from the fire, the fire shall still consume them, and you shall know that I am the Lord when I set my face against them.[#Lev 17.10; Isa 24.18; Ezek 6.7; 7.4; 14.8]

8And I will make the land desolate because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord God .[#Ezek 14.13]

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