Ezekiel 15
1AGAIN a word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2Son of man, why should the wood of the grape-vine be distinguished from the wood of all the branchy trees which are among the trees of the forest?
3Can men use the wood of it for any kind of workmanship? Can they make a pin of it to hang thereon any utensil?
4Is it not in a peculiar manner doomed to be consumed by fire? Every year the fire consumeth what is lopped from it. And if a bit of it is left, is it fit for any kind of workmanship?
5Even when entire, it will be unfit for any work; how then, when fire hath burned it to a brand, can it serve for any work?
6Say therefore, Thus saith the Lord: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have doomed to be destroyed by fire, so have I doomed the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
7And I will set My face against them. When they escape out of one fire another shall devour them. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I set My face against them.
8And I will make the land a desolation for their apostacy, saith the Lord.