Ezekiel 15

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

耶和華的話臨到我說：

2 “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?

「人子啊，葡萄樹比別樣樹有甚麼強處？葡萄枝比眾樹枝有甚麼好處？

3 Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils?

其上可以取木料做甚麼工用，可以取來做釘子掛甚麼器皿嗎？

4 No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?

看哪，已經拋在火中當作柴燒，火既燒了兩頭，中間也被燒了，還有益於工用嗎？

5 Even when it was whole, it could not be made useful. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and charred it!

完全的時候尚且不合乎甚麼工用，何況被火燒壞，還能合乎甚麼工用嗎？」

6 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.

所以，主耶和華如此說：「眾樹以內的葡萄樹，我怎樣使它在火中當柴，也必照樣待耶路撒冷的居民。

7 And I will set My face against them. Though they may have escaped the fire, yet another fire will consume them. And when I set My face against them, you will know that I am the LORD.

我必向他們變臉；他們雖從火中出來，火卻要燒滅他們。我向他們變臉的時候，你們就知道我是耶和華。

8 Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

我必使地土荒涼，因為他們行事干犯我。這是主耶和華說的。」