Ezekiel 15:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵ The wood is useless before it is burned, and afterwards, it is completely worthless.

⁶ I, the Lord God, promise that just as the wood of a grapevine is burned as firewood, ⁷ I will punish the people of Jerusalem with fire. Some of them have escaped one destruction, but soon they will be completely burned. And when that happens, you, Ezekiel, will know that I am the Lord.