Ezekiel 15 — ULB

15Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,²“Son of man, how is a vine better than any tree with branches that is among the trees in a forest?³Do people take wood from a vine to make anything? Or do they make a peg from it to hang anything on it?⁴See! If it is thrown into a fire as fuel, and if the fire has burned both of its ends and also the middle, is it good for anything?⁵See! When it was complete, it could not make anything; surely then, when the fire has burned, then it still will not make anything useful.⁶Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Unlike the trees in the forests, I have given the vine as fuel for fires; I will act in the same way toward the inhabitants of Jerusalem.⁷For I will set my face against them. Though they come out from the fire, yet the fire will consume them; so you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.⁸Then I will make the land into an abandoned wasteland because they have committed sin—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.”