Chapters
EZEKIEL (48 chapters)
EZEKIEL 15
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Yahweh gave me another message. He said,
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“You human, the wood of a grapevine is certainly not [RHQ] more useful that the branches of the trees in a forest.
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No one [RHQ] ever takes a branch of a grapevine and makes anything useful from it. No one [RHQ] even makes pegs from them to hang things on.
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And after a branch of a grapevine is thrown into a fire, and the fire burns both ends and chars/scorches the branch in the middle, will it then be useful for anything?
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No; if it was not useful for anything before it was burned, it certainly cannot bemade into something useful after the fire has burned and charred it.
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Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: The wood of grapevines is useful only for fuel in a fire. Similarly, the people who live in Jerusalemare useless.
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I will reject [IDM] them. It will be as though they have escaped from a fire, but there will still be a fire that will burn them up. And when I punish [EUP] them, you people who remain alive will know that I, Yahweh, have done it.
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I will cause your country to become a wasteland because your people have not been loyal to me. That is what I, Yahweh, the Lord, say.”