Ezekiel 15 15 Ezekiel Judgment on Jerusalem Arabic Simplified Text 1 ARST Yahweh gave me another message. He said, BSB BSB: Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 ARST “Son of man, the wood of a grapevine is certainly not more useful than the branches of the trees in a forest. BSB BSB: “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?
3 ARST No one even makes pegs from it to hang things on. BSB BSB: Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils?
4 ARST And after a branch of a grapevine is thrown into a fire and the fire burns both ends and chars the branch in the middle, after that will it be useful for anything? BSB BSB: 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?
5 ARST No; if it was not useful for anything before it was burned, it certainly cannot be made into something useful after the fire has burned and charred it. BSB BSB: 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!
6 ARST 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 Jerusalem are useless. BSB BSB: 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.
7 ARST I will reject 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 them, you people who remain alive will know that I, Yahweh, have done it. BSB BSB: 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.
8 ARST 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.” BSB BSB: Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
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