Ezekiel 15

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

上主的話傳給我說：「

2 “Son of man, how is a vine better than any tree with branches that is among the trees in a forest?

人子，樹林中這棵葡萄樹，到底有什麼超越其他一切樹木之處﹖

3 Do people take wood from a vine to make anything? Or do they make a peg from it to hang anything on it?

豈能取它的木材製造用具，或者能取出它一根枝條，在上面懸掛器具﹖

4 See! If it is thrown into a fire as fuel, and if the fire has burned both of its ends and also the middle, is it good for anything?

只有投入火中焚燒；火焚燒了它的兩端，中間也在焚燒；它還能有什麼用途﹖

5 See! When it was complete, it could not make anything; surely then, when the fire has burned, then it still will not make anything useful.

當它完整時，還不能作什麼用具，何況經火燃燒焚化之後，豈不是更不能製造什麼用具﹖

6 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Unlike the trees in the forests, I have given the vine as fuel for fires; I will act in the same way toward the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

為此，吾主上主這樣說：我怎樣把樹林中的葡萄樹投入火中焚燒，也必怎樣對待耶路撒冷的居民。

7 For I will set my face against them. Though they come out from the fire, yet the fire will consume them; so you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

我要翻臉打擊他們：他們雖從火中逃出來，仍要為火焚燒。當我翻臉打擊他們時，他們必承認我是上主。

8 Then I will make the land into an abandoned wasteland because they have committed sin—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.”

因為他們背信違約，我必使那地方變為荒野──吾主上主的斷語。」