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Do people take a peg from it to hang any vessel on it? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I will set my face against them. Though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, and you will know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, when I set my face against them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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