Ezekiel 15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Parable of the Useless Vine

¹ Then the word of the Lord came to me:

² ‘Son of man, how does the wood of the vine,  that branch among the trees of the forest, compare to any other wood?

³ Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

⁴ In fact, it is put into the fire as fuel.  The fire devours both of its ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?

⁵ Even when it was whole it could not be made into a useful object. How much less can it ever be made into anything useful when the fire has devoured it and it is charred! ’

⁶ Therefore, this is what the Lord God says; ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire as fuel, so I will give up the residents of Jerusalem.

⁷ I will turn against them.  They may have escaped from the fire, but it will still consume them.  And you will know that I am the Lord when I turn against them.

⁸ I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully.’ This is the declaration of the Lord God.