Ezekiel 15:4

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Look, it is put into the fire for fuel. The fire consumes both ends of it, and its middle is charred. Is it useful for anything?

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  • John 15:6 : 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
  • Ezek 19:14 : 14 Fire went out from its branch, consuming its fruit. There was no strong rod left in it, no scepter fit to rule. This is a lamentation, and it has become a lamentation.
  • Amos 4:11 : 11 I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand snatched from the burning, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
  • Ps 80:16 : 16 The root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself.
  • Isa 1:31 : 31 The strong one will become tinder, and his work a spark; both will burn together, and no one will extinguish them.

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  • Ezek 15:5-7
    3 verses
    91%

    5Even when it was whole, it could not be made into anything useful. How much less can it be used after the fire has consumed it and it is charred!

    6Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

    7I will set my face against them. Though they come out of the fire, the fire will still consume them. Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

  • Ezek 15:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2Son of man, what is the wood of a vine compared to any other tree or the branch that is among the trees of the forest?

    3Is wood taken from it to make anything useful? Can one make a peg from it to hang any utensil on?

  • Isa 44:14-16
    3 verses
    77%

    14He cuts down cedars or chooses a cypress or an oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow.

    15It becomes fuel for a man; he takes part of it to warm himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

    16Half of the wood he burns in the fire; he roasts meat over it, eats, and is satisfied. He warms himself and says, 'Ah, I am warm; I see the fire.'

  • 4Then take some of these again, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From it, a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

  • 14Behold, they are like stubble; fire consumes them. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coal for warming oneself, nor fire to sit before.

  • 20Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire has consumed their wealth.

  • 14My God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

  • Isa 44:19-20
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    19No one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, 'Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, roasted meat, and ate. Now, should I make an abomination of the rest? Should I bow down to a block of wood?'

    20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, 'Isn't there a lie in my right hand?'

  • 18By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.

  • 31The strong one will become tinder, and his work a spark; both will burn together, and no one will extinguish them.

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    10Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, boil the flesh thoroughly, mix in the spices, and let the bones burn.

    11Set the pot on its coals empty, so that it may become hot and its bronze burned. Its filthiness will melt away; its corrosion will be consumed.

  • 12It is a fire that burns to destruction, consuming all my harvest.

  • 16The root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself.

  • 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Isa 10:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15Does the axe exalt itself above the one who wields it? Or does the saw boast against the one who moves it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff acting as though it were not made of wood.

    16Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will send leanness among his robust ones, and under his glory, a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.

    17The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; it will burn and devour his thorns and briars in a single day.

  • 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

  • 11When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.

  • 12The peoples will be burned as if to lime, like cut thorns set ablaze in the fire.

  • 14Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, says: Because you have said these words, I am making My words in your mouth a fire, and this people the wood it consumes.

  • 7I will send destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

  • 14Fire went out from its branch, consuming its fruit. There was no strong rod left in it, no scepter fit to rule. This is a lamentation, and it has become a lamentation.

  • 9The axe is already laid at the root of the trees, so every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • 23As Jehudi read three or four columns of the scroll, the king would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the fire in the firepot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire.

  • 10Even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • 19They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

  • 14'Its collapse will be like that of a jar shattered into pieces so small that no fragment can be used to scoop fire from the hearth or draw water from a cistern.'

  • 29The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.

  • 4This is what the Lord God showed me: The Lord was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

  • 16Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.

  • 24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and as dry grass sinks in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 13Is it not from the LORD of Hosts that peoples labor for fire and nations grow weary for nothing?

  • 15If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss, but they will still be saved, though only as one escaping through flames.

  • 18They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone.

  • 10Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

  • 8But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

  • 10Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?

  • 6Now they smash all its carved work together with hatchets and hammers.

  • 10They will not gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons as fuel. They will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Lord GOD.