Ezekiel 15:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ 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?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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 thy countenance.

Isaiah 1:31

And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

Ezekiel 15:3

Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

Ezekiel 15:5

Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work?

Ezekiel 15:6

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 19:14

And fire is gone out of the rods of her branches, it hath devoured her fruit, so that there is in her no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Amos 4:11

I have overthrown some among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Matthew 3:12

whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.

John 15:6

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Hebrews 12:29

for our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 6:8

but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.