Ezekiel 15:7

"Therefore the Lord GOD says: “As the vine wood among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem."

Key Reflection

This verse uses the imagery of a vine branch burned as firewood to symbolize the destruction of Jerusalem's inhabitants. Just as a useless branch is discarded and burned, God declares that He will judge and destroy those in Jerusalem who have proven unfruitful or unworthy.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

They shall go out ... -Rather, they have gone forth from the fire, and the fire shall devour them. The condition of the people is here depicted. The people of Israel - as a whole and as separate kingdoms - had become worthless. The branch torn from the living stem had truly been cast into the fire, which had devoured both ends of it; what remained was a brand plucked from the burning. Those who had escaped the general calamity were reserved for a like fate. CompareJohn 15:6.

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