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About this chapterGod asks a simple question: what use is the wood of a vine compared with any other tree? It cannot make a peg or a tool, and after it has been burned at both ends and charred in the middle it is good for nothing. Jerusalem is that vine. Although Israel is often pictured as a vine God planted, here the point is that its only worth lay in bearing fruit, and having failed, it is now fit only for the fire. God turns his face against the inhabitants and makes the land desolate because they have been unfaithful.

God asks a simple question: what use is the wood of a vine compared with any other tree? It cannot make a peg or a tool, and after it has been burned at both ends and charred in the middle it is good for nothing. Jerusalem is that vine. Although Israel is often pictured as a vine God planted, here the point is that its only worth lay in bearing fruit, and having failed, it is now fit only for the fire. God turns his face against the inhabitants and makes the land desolate because they have been unfaithful.

Themes

  • Useless vine wood
  • Fruitfulness is the purpose
  • Unfaithfulness judged

Key verses

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Ezekiel 15

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1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest? 3Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils? 4No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything? 5Even when it was whole, it could not be made useful. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and charred it! 6Therefore 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 for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem. 7And I will set My face against them. Though they may have escaped the fire, yet another fire will consume them. And when I set My face against them, you will know that I am the LORD. 8Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
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