Ezekiel 15:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Shall wood be taken from it to do any work? Or will one take a peg from it to hang any vessel upon?

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  • Jer 24:8 : 8 And as for the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus says the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt:
  • Matt 5:13 : 13 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
  • Mark 9:50 : 50 Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.
  • Luke 14:34-35 : 34 Salt is good: but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? 35 It is neither fit for the land, nor for the manure pile; but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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  • Ezek 15:1-2
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    84%

    1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch among the trees of the forest?

  • Ezek 15:4-6
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    82%

    4Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire consumes both ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it fit for any work?

    5Behold, when it was whole, it was not fit for any work: how much less shall it be fit for any work when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned?

    6Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Like 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.

  • Isa 10:15
    76%

    15Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.

  • Jer 10:3-4
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    3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

    4They decorate it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it does not move.

  • Isa 44:14-15
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    14He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.

    15Then it shall be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and warm himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.

  • Ezek 17:8-9
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    8It was planted in good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches and bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

    9Say thus says the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it withers? It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.

  • Ps 80:15
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    15And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.

  • Judg 9:11-13
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    11But the fig tree said to them, Should I forsake my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?

    12Then the trees said to the vine, You come and reign over us.

    13And the vine said to them, Should I leave my wine, which cheers God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

  • John 15:5-6
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    5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit, for without me you can do nothing.

    6If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

  • Ezek 17:4-6
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    4He cropped off the top of its young twigs and carried it into a land of trade; he set it in a city of merchants.

    5He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in a fertile field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

    6And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine and brought forth branches and shot forth sprigs.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

  • Isa 40:19-20
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    19The workman molds a graven image, the goldsmith covers it with gold and casts silver chains.

    20He who is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not be moved.

  • Ezek 17:22-23
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    22Thus says the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar and will set it; I will crop off from the top of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon a high and prominent mountain:

    23In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shadow of its branches shall they dwell.

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.

    8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;

  • Isa 44:19
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    19And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stump of a tree?

  • Isa 27:11
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    11When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore that does not produce good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

  • Ezek 31:14
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    14So that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, nor set their top among the thick boughs, nor any tree stand up to its height, all that drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

  • Job 15:32-33
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    69%

    32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

    33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and cast off his flower as the olive.

  • Matt 7:19
    69%

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

  • Jer 15:12
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    12Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

  • John 15:2
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    2Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may produce more fruit.

  • Ezek 19:14
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    14And fire has gone out from a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

  • Isa 22:25
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    25In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.

  • Job 18:16
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    16His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.

  • Hab 2:11
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    11For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it.

  • Isa 5:4
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    4What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?

  • Matt 3:10
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    10And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

  • Isa 5:2
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    2And he fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.

  • Hab 2:19
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    19Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake; to the mute stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

  • Judg 9:9
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    9But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my richness, by which they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

  • Luke 23:31
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    31For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?

  • Luke 13:9
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    9And if it bears fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.

  • Ps 74:6
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    6But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers.

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    10It is sharpened to make a great slaughter; it is polished that it may glitter: should we then rejoice? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree.