1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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2“Son of man, what can be made from the stalk of a vine, compared to all the plants of the woods that are among the trees of the forests?

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Hosea 10:1, Hosea 10:1, Isaiah 5:1, Isaiah 5:7, Psalms 80:8

3Can any wood be taken from it, so that it may be made into a work, or formed into a peg so as to hang some kind of vessel upon it?

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Jeremiah 24:8, Matthew 5:13, Luke 14:34, Luke 14:35, Mark 9:50

4Behold, it is used in the fire as fuel. The fire consumes both its ends; and its middle is reduced to ashes. So how can it be useful for any work?

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John 15:6, John 15:6, Isaiah 27:11, Psalms 80:16, Isaiah 27:11

5Even when it was whole, it was unsuitable for a work. How much more so, when fire has devoured it and burned it up, will nothing of it be useful?

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Jeremiah 3:16, Jeremiah 3:16

6Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Like the stalk of the vine among the trees of the forests, which I have given to be devoured by fire, so will I deliver the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Ezekiel 17:3, Ezekiel 17:10, Jeremiah 25:18, Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 44:21

7And I will set my face against them. They will go away from fire, and yet fire will consume them. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have set my face against them,

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Ezekiel 14:8, Ezekiel 14:8, Psalms 34:16, Isaiah 24:18, Amos 9:1

8and when I will have made their land impassable and desolate. For they have stood forth as transgressors, says the Lord God.”

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Ezekiel 6:14, Ezekiel 6:14, 2 Chronicles 36:14, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Ezekiel 14:13