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17 lines
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Parable of the Useless Vine
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# Chapter 15
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1. Then the word of the Lord came to me:
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2. "Son of man, how does the wood of the vine, that branch among the trees of the forest, compare to any other wood?
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3. Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?
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4. In fact, it is put into the fire as fuel. The fire devours both of its ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?
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5. Even when it was whole it could not be made into a useful object. How much less can it ever be made into anything useful when the fire has devoured it and it is charred!"
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6. Therefore, 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 as fuel, so I will give up the residents of Jerusalem.
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7. I will turn against them. They may have escaped from the fire, but it will still consume them. And you will know that I am the Lord when I turn against them.
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8. I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully." This is the declaration of the Lord God.
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