# Ezekiel 15 [[Ezekiel 14|←]] • [[Ezekiel 16|→]] --- ### 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ### 2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, a branch which is among the trees of the forest? ### 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will 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 work? ### 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? ### 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ### 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from fire, and fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I the Lord, when I set my face against them. ### 8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God.