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align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/ezekiel/15.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/ezekiel/15.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/ezekiel/15.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/ezekiel/15.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/ezekiel/15.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/ezekiel/15.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/ezekiel/15.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/15.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/ezekiel/15.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a 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But if not fruitful, it is worthless and useless, it is cast into the fire. Thus man is capable of yielding a precious fruit, in living to God; this is the sole end of his existence; and if he fails in this, he is of no use but to be destroyed. What blindness then attaches to those who live in the total neglect of God and of true religion! This similitude is applied to Jerusalem. Let us beware of an unfruitful profession. Let us come to Christ, and seek to abide in him, and to have his words abide in us.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/ezekiel/15.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>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. Compare <a href="/john/15-6.htm">John 15:6</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/ezekiel/15.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>8. trespass—rather, "they have perversely fallen into perverse rebellion." The Jews were not merely sinners as the other nations, but revolters and apostates. It is one thing to neglect what we know not, but quite another thing to despise what we profess to worship [Jerome], as the Jews did towards God and the law. <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/ezekiel/15.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">Desolate:</span> see <span class="bld"><a href="/ezekiel/6-14.htm" title="So will I stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.">Ezekiel 6:14</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">A trespass; </span> not one single trespass, but they have been so perpetually trespassing that it seemed a continued act, and all done with greatest aggravation. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/ezekiel/15.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And I will make the land desolate,.... The land of Judea uncultivated, men and beast being cut off; see <a href="/ezekiel/14-15.htm">Ezekiel 14:15</a>; <p>because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God; acted a treacherous and perfidious part; apostatized from God, having committed idolatry, which was the cause of their ruin; and therefore it was not without a cause that the Lord did what he did, in it; see <a href="/ezekiel/14-23.htm">Ezekiel 14:23</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/ezekiel/15.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/ezekiel/15.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">8</span>. The figure of “burning” in the fire is expressed in literal language: the land shall be made a desolation. Like his predecessor Jeremiah, the prophet sets little store by the existence of Israel as a state or kingdom among other states. Israel’s mission is religious, not political. See on ch. <a href="/ezekiel/13-3.htm" title="Thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!">Ezekiel 13:3</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Ezekiel 15:8<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/ezekiel/15.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, <a href="/ezekiel/15-2.htm">Ezekiel 15:2</a>. Son of man, what advantage has the wood of the vine over every wood, the vine-branch, which was among the trees of the forest? <a href="/ezekiel/15-3.htm">Ezekiel 15:3</a>. Is wood taken from it to use for any work? or do men take a peg from it to hang all kinds of vessels upon? <a href="/ezekiel/15-4.htm">Ezekiel 15:4</a>. Behold, it is given to the fire to consume. If the fire has consumed its two ends, and the middle of it is scorched, will it then be fit for any work? <a href="/ezekiel/15-5.htm">Ezekiel 15:5</a>. Behold, when it is uninjured, it is not used for any work: how much less when the fire has consumed it and scorched it can it be still used for work? <a href="/ezekiel/15-6.htm">Ezekiel 15:6</a>. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, As the wood of the vine among the wood of the forest, which I give to the fire to consume, so do I give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem, <a href="/ezekiel/15-7.htm">Ezekiel 15:7</a>. And direct my face against them. They have gone out of the fire, and the fire will consume them; that ye may learn that I am Jehovah, when I set my face against them. <a href="/ezekiel/15-8.htm">Ezekiel 15:8</a>. And I make the land a desert, because they committed treachery, is the saying of the Lord Jehovah. - Israel is like the wood of the wild vine, which is put into the fire to burn, because it is good for nothing. From <a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/32-32.htm">Deuteronomy 32:32-33</a> onwards, Israel is frequently compared to a vine or a vineyard (cf. <a href="/psalms/80-9.htm">Psalm 80:9</a>.; <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5.htm">Isaiah 5</a>; <a href="/hosea/10-1.htm">Hosea 10:1</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/2-21.htm">Jeremiah 2:21</a>), and always, with the exception of <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/80.htm">Psalm 80</a>, to point out its degeneracy. This comparison lies at the foundation of the figure employed, in <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/15-2.htm">Ezekiel 15:2-5</a>, of the wood of the wild vine. This wood has no superiority over any other kind of wood. It cannot be used, like other timber, for any useful purposes; but is only fit to be burned, so that it is really inferior to all other wood (<a href="/ezekiel/15-2.htm">Ezekiel 15:2</a> and <a href="/ezekiel/15-3.htm">Ezekiel 15:3</a>). And if, in its perfect state, it cannot be used for anything, how much less when it is partially scorched and consumed (<a href="/ezekiel/15-4.htm">Ezekiel 15:4</a> and <a href="/ezekiel/15-5.htm">Ezekiel 15:5</a>)! מה־יּהיה, followed by מן, means, what is it above (מן, comparative)? - i.e., what superiority has it to כּל־עץ, all kinds of wood? i.e., any other wood. 'הזמורה אשׁר וגו is in apposition to עץ הנּפן, and is not to be connected with מכּל־עץ, as it has been by the lxx and Vulgate, - notwithstanding the Masoretic accentuation, - so as to mean every kind of fagot; for זמורה does not mean a fagot, but the tendril or branch of the vine (cf. <a href="/ezekiel/8-17.htm">Ezekiel 8:17</a>), which is still further defined by the following relative clause: to be a wood-vine, i.e., a wild vine, which bears only sour, uneatable grapes. The preterite היה (which was; not, "is") may be explained from the idea that the vine had been fetched from the forest in order that its wood might be used. The answer given in <a href="/ezekiel/15-3.htm">Ezekiel 15:3</a> is, that this vine-wood cannot be used for any purpose whatever, not even as a peg for hanging any kind of domestic utensils upon (see comm. on <a href="/zechariah/10-4.htm">Zechariah 10:4</a>). It is too weak even for this. The object has to be supplied to לעשׂות למלאכה: to make, or apply it, for any work. Because it cannot be used as timber, it is burned. A fresh thought is introduced in <a href="/ezekiel/15-4.htm">Ezekiel 15:4</a> by the words 'את שׁני ק. The two clauses in <a href="/ezekiel/15-4.htm">Ezekiel 15:4</a> are to be connected together. The first supposes a case, from which the second is deduced as a conclusion. The question, "Is it fit for any work?" is determined in <a href="/ezekiel/15-5.htm">Ezekiel 15:5</a> in the negative. אף כּי: as in <a href="/ezekiel/14-21.htm">Ezekiel 14:21</a>. נחר: perfect; and יחר: imperfect, Niphal, of חרר, in the sense of, to be burned or scorched. The subject to waויּחר is no doubt the wood, to which the suffix in אכלתהוּ refers. At the same time, the two clauses are to be understood, in accordance with <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/15-4.htm">Ezekiel 15:4</a>, as relating to the burning of the ends and the scorching of the middle. - <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/15-6.htm">Ezekiel 15:6-8</a>. In the application of the parable, the only thing to which prominence is given, is the fact that God will deal with the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the same manner as with the vine-wood, which cannot be used for any kind of work. This implies that Israel resembles the wood of a forest-vine. As this possesses no superiority to other wood, but, on the contrary, is utterly useless, so Israel has no superiority to other nations, but is even worse than they, and therefore is given up to the fire. This is accounted for in <a href="/ezekiel/15-7.htm">Ezekiel 15:7</a> : "They have come out of the fire, and the fire will consume them" (the inhabitants of Jerusalem). These words are not to be interpreted proverbially, as meaning, "he who escapes one judgment falls into another" (Hvernick), but show the application of <a href="/ezekiel/15-4.htm">Ezekiel 15:4</a> and <a href="/ezekiel/15-5.htm">Ezekiel 15:5</a> to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Out of a fire one must come either burned or scorched. Israel has been in the fire already. It resembles a wild vine which has been consumed at both ends by the fire, while the middle has been scorched, and which is now about to be given up altogether to the fire. We must not restrict the fire, however, out of which it has come half consumed, to the capture of Jerusalem in the time of Jehoiachin, as Hitzig does, but must extend it to all the judgments which fell upon the covenant nation, from the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes to the catastrophe in the reign of Jehoiachin, and in consequence of which Israel now resembled a vine burned at both ends and scorched in the middle. The threat closes in the same manner as the previous one. 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