Ezekiel 15

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

耶和華的話臨到我說：

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

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 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?

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 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.

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 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.

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

我必使地土荒涼，因為他們行事干犯我。這是主耶和華說的。」