Ezekiel 15:5

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Behold, in its being whole, it will not do for work: but if the fire consumed it, and it was burnt, did it yet do for work?

Cross References

Jeremiah 3:16

And it was that ye shall be multiplied and be fruitful in the land in those days, says Jehovah; they shall no more say, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah: and it shall not come up upon the heart, and they shall not remember upon it, and they shall not review and it shall be clone no more.

Ezekiel 15:4

Behold, it was given to the fire to consume; the fire consumed its two ends, and the midst of it was burned. Will it succeed for work.

Ezekiel 15:6

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: As the tree of the vine upon the tree of the forest which I gave it to the fire for consuming, thus I gave the inhabitants of Jerusalem.