Ezekiel 15:4 - The Scriptures 2009

“See, into the fire it shall be given for fuel. Both ends of it the fire shall burn, and its middle shall be scorched. Is it fit for any work?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire consumes both ends of it and the middle of it is charred. Is it suitable or profitable for any work?

American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire hath devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?

Common English Bible

If not, can it be used as firewood? Fire would consume its two ends, but its middle part would only get charred. So is it useful for anything?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Behold, it is used in the fire as fuel. The fire consumes both its ends; and its middle is reduced to ashes. So how can it be useful for any work?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath consumed both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is reduced to ashes. Shall it be useful for any work?

Ezekiel 15:4 Cross References

Psalm 80:16

It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your face.

Isaiah 1:31

The strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark. And both shall burn together, with no one to extinguish.

Isaiah 27:11

When its twigs are dry, they are broken off, women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding, therefore He who made them has no compassion on them, and He who formed them shows them no favour.

Ezekiel 15:3

“Is wood taken from it to be made into any work? Do they take a peg from it to hang any vessel on?

Ezekiel 15:5

“See, when it was intact, it was not made for work, how much less when the fire has burned it and it is scorched shall it still be used for work?

Ezekiel 15:6

“Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, ‘As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I shall give up the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.

Ezekiel 19:14

And fire went out from a rod of her branches. It devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod, a sceptre to rule.’ ” This is a lament, and it shall be a lament.

Amos 4:11

“I have overthrown some of you, as Elohim overthrew Seḏom and Amorah, and you were like a burning stick plucked from the burning. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares יהוה.

Malachi 4:1

“For look, the day shall come, burning like a furnace, and all the proud, and every wrongdoer shall be stubble. And the day that shall come shall burn them up,” said יהוה of hosts, “which leaves to them neither root nor branch.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall thoroughly cleanse His threshing-floor, and gather His wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff He shall burn with unquenchable fire.

John 15:6

“If anyone does not stay in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up. And they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

Hebrews 12:29

for indeed, our Elohim is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 6:8

but if it brings forth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near to being cursed, and ends up by being burned.