the shoot Your right hand planted— the son You strengthened for Yourself.
Ezekiel 15:4 - Tree of Life Version Behold, when it is cast in the fire for fuel, both ends are devoured in fire and the middle is charred—is it useful for any work? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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? |
the shoot Your right hand planted— the son You strengthened for Yourself.
So the strong will become tinder and his work like a spark— both will burn together, and no one will quench them.
When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore their Maker will show them no mercy—He who formed them will give them no grace.
Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Can a peg be made from it to hang anything on?
Look, when it was whole, it was not useful for any work—how much less, when the fire has devoured it and it is charred, will it be useful for any work?
Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: Like the vine’s wood among the trees of the forest that I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Fire has spread from its main branch and devoured its fruit. No strong branch is left on it to become a ruler’s scepter.” This is a lamentation, and it is to be used as a lamentation.
I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You became like a firebrand snatched from a blaze— yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Adonai.
His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He shall burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and is dried up. Such branches are picked up and thrown into the fire and burned.
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed—its end is to be burned over.