Ezekiel 15

1 I dođe mi riječ Jahvina:

Yahweh gave me another message. [He said],

2 “Sine čovječji! U čemu je trs loze bolji od drugih šumskih drveta?

“You human, the wood of a grapevine is certainly not [RHQ] more useful that the branches of the trees in a forest.

3 Služi li da se od njega štogod načini? Djelja li se od njega klin da se o njega što objesi?

No one [RHQ] ever takes a branch of a grapevine and makes anything [useful] from it. No one [RHQ] even makes pegs from them to hang things on.

4 Gle, baca se u oganj da izgori: kad mu oganj sažeže oba kraja i sredinu spali, može li još čemu poslužiti?

And after a branch of a grapevine is thrown into a fire, and the fire burns both ends and chars/scorches the branch in the middle, will it then be useful for anything?

5 Eto, ni onda kad bijaše čitav ništa se od njega ne mogaše načiniti. Pa kako će, dakle, čemu poslužiti kad ga plamen sažga?”

No; if it was not useful for anything before it was burned, it certainly cannot [made into something] useful after the fire has burned and charred it.

6 Zato ovako govori Jahve Gospod: “Kao što sam trs loze, među drugim drvetima, bacio u oganj da izgori, tako ću postupati i s Jeruzalemcima!

Therefore, this is what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say: The wood of grapevines is useful only for fuel in a fire. Similarly, the people who live in [are useless].

7 Upravit ću lice svoje na njih, i kada se iz jednog ognja izbave, drugi će ih proždrijeti. I spoznat ćete da sam ja Jahve kad lice svoje upravim na njih

I will reject [IDM] them. [It will be as though] they have escaped from a fire, but there will still be a fire that will burn them up. And when I punish [EUP] them, you [people who remain alive] will know that I, Yahweh, [have done it].

8 i svu im zemlju opustošim jer mi bijahu nevjerni! - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.”

I will cause your country to become a wasteland because your people have not been loyal [to me. That is what I], Yahweh, the Lord, say.”