Ezekiel 15:3

World English Bible (2000)

Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 24:8 : 8 As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who 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 has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
  • Mark 9:50 : 50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
  • Luke 14:34-35 : 34 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? 35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

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    1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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

  • Ezek 15:4-6
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    4Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and its midst is burned: is it profitable for any work?

    5Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!

    6Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

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

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

  • Isa 44:14-15
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    14He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

    15Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.

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

    9Say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots.

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

  • Judg 9:11-13
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    13"The vine said to them, 'Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

  • John 15:5-6
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    5I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

    6If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

  • Ezek 17:4-6
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    4he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

    5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.

    6It 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 blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

  • Isa 40:19-20
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    19A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

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    22Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty 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 shade of its branches shall they dwell.

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

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    19No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"

  • Isa 27:11
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    11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

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    9Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

  • Ezek 31:14
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    14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who 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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    32It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

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

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    19Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

  • Jer 15:12
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    12Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?

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    2Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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    16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

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    11For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

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    4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

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