Ezekiel 15
Parable of the Useless Vine
1Then the word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine, a that branch among the trees of the forest, compare to any other wood? 3Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on? 4In fact, it is put into the fire as fuel. b The fire devours both of its ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything? 5 Even when it was whole it could not be made into a useful object. How much less can it ever be made into anything useful when the fire has devoured it and it is charred! 6 “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire as fuel, so I will give up the residents of Jerusalem. 7I will turn against them. c They may have escaped from the fire, but it will still consume them. d And you will know that I am ▼▼Yahweh/Yah: Or The Lord; the personal name of God in Hebrew; "Yah" is the shortened form of the name.
Yahweh when I turn against them. 8I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
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