Ezekiel 15
1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 “Son of man, what is vine wood compared with any other wood—the branch among the trees of the forest?
3 Can wood be taken from it to make anything? Can anyone take a peg from it to hang any object on?
4 Look: it is given to the fire to be consumed. The fire consumes both its ends, and its middle is charred. Is it useful for anything?
5 Look: when it was whole, it was useful for no work at all. How much less, after the fire has consumed it and it has been charred, can it still be used for anything?
6 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the vine wood among the trees of the forest, which I gave to the fire to be consumed, so I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
7 I will set my face against them. They came out of the fire, but the fire will consume them; and you will know that I am the LORD when I set my face against them.
8 I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Lord GOD.’”
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