以西结书 15

1 耶和华的话临到我说：

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2 “人子啊，葡萄树比别样树有什么强处？葡萄枝比众树枝有什么好处？

Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests?

3 其上可以取木料做什么工用，可以取来做钉子挂什么器皿吗？

Shall wood be taken of if, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?

4 看哪，已经抛在火中当作柴烧，火既烧了两头，中间也被烧了，还有益于工用吗？

Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath consumed both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is reduced to ashes: shall it be useful for any work?

5 完全的时候尚且不合乎什么工用，何况被火烧坏，还能合乎什么工用吗？”

Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall any work be made of it?

6 所以，主耶和华如此说：“众树以内的葡萄树，我怎样使它在火中当柴，也必照样待耶路撒冷的居民。

Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among the trees of the forests which I have given to the fire to be consumed, so will I deliver up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

7 我必向他们变脸；他们虽从火中出来，火却要烧灭他们。我向他们变脸的时候，你们就知道我是耶和华。

And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire, and fire shall consume them: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against them.

8 我必使地土荒凉，因为他们行事干犯我。这是主耶和华说的。”

And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.