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What good is a branch of a grapevine compared with the trees of the forest? </span><span class="v26_15_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.15.3" class="v26_15_3">3</span>Can you use it to make anything? Can you even make a peg out of it to hang things on? </span><span class="v26_15_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.15.4" class="v26_15_4">4</span>It is only good for building a fire. And when the ends are burned up and the middle is charred, can you make anything out of it? </span><span class="v26_15_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.15.5" class="v26_15_5">5</span>It was useless even before it was burned. Now that the fire has burned it and charred it, it is even more useless.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_15_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.15.6" class="v26_15_6">6</span>Now this is what the Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span> is saying: “Just as a vine is taken from the forest and burned, so I will take the people who live in Jerusalem </span><span class="v26_15_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.15.7" class="v26_15_7">7</span>and will punish them. They have escaped one fire, but now fire will burn them up. 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