Ezekiel 15:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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?

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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?

Ezekiel 15:4 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 1:31

The strong one will become tinder, and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to extinguish the flames.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker  will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Ezekiel 15:3

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

Ezekiel 15:5

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! ’

Ezekiel 15:6

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.

Ezekiel 19:14

Fire has gone out from its main branch and has devoured its fruit, so that it no longer has a strong branch, a sceptre for ruling. This is a lament and should be used as a lament.’

Amos 4:11

I overthrew some of you as I  overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick snatched from a fire, yet you did not return to me   – This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Malachi 4:1

‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’

John 15:6

If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside   like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire,   and they are burned.

Hebrews 12:29

for our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 6:8

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and at the end will be burned.