Ezekiel 15:4
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burnt. Is it profitable for any work?
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In Context
3Will wood be taken of it to make anything? Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel on it?
Cross References
Isaiah 1:31The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”
Ezekiel 19:14Fire has gone out of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong branch to be a sceptre to rule.’ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”
Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says the LORD of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
John 15:6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burnt.
Hebrews 12:29for our God is a consuming fire.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 15:2-8
Jerusalem a Condemned Vine. ( b. c. 593.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 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? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less… Read the whole commentary →