Ezekiel 15:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

It is put in the fire for fuel; when the fire has consumed both ends of it and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything?

Cross References

John 15:6

Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

Psalm 80:16

It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down; may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

Hebrews 12:29

for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 6:8

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and on the verge of being cursed; its end is to be burned over.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Malachi 4:1

See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Amos 4:11

I overthrew some of you as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a brand snatched from the fire; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 19:14

And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.

Isaiah 1:31

The strong shall become like tinder and their work like a spark; they and their work shall burn together, with no one to quench them.

Ezekiel 15:3

Is wood taken from it to make anything? Does one take a peg from it on which to hang any object?

Ezekiel 15:5

When it was whole it was used for nothing; how much less—when the fire has consumed it, and it is charred— can it ever be used for anything!

Ezekiel 15:6

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.