Ezekiel 15:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

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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  • 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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  • Ezek 15:1-2
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    84%

    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
    3 verses
    82%

    4Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it 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
    76%

    15Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.

  • Jer 10:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    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 shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles 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 you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots of it.

  • 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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    11But the fig tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?

    12The trees said to the vine, Come you, and reign over us.

    13The 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 the roots of it 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 the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.

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

    20He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.

  • Ezek 17:22-23
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    70%

    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 the branches of it 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.

    8Though the root of it grows old in the earth, And the stock of it dies in the ground;

  • Isa 44:19
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    19None calls to mind, 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 residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

  • Isa 27:11
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    11When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is 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.

  • Luke 3:9
    69%

    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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    69%

    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.

  • Matt 7:19
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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?

  • John 15:2
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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.

  • Ezek 19:14
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    14Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it 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 Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off; for Yahweh has spoken it.

  • Job 18:16
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    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Hab 2:11
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    11For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

  • Isa 5:4
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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?

  • Matt 3:10
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    10"Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

  • Isa 5:2
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    2He dug it up, Gathered out its stones, Planted it with the choicest vine, Built a tower in its midst, And also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, But it yielded wild grapes.

  • Hab 2:19
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    19Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

  • Judg 9:9
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    9But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?

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

  • Luke 13:9
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    9If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

  • Ps 74:6
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    6Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.

  • Ezek 21:10
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    10it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.