Ezekiel 15

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

耶和華的話臨到我說：

2 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?

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

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 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?

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

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: 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.

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 And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith 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。」