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Human one, how is the vine's wood better than the wood of all the trees in the forest?
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Can you make anything useful from its wood? Can you make a peg from it and hang objects on it?
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If not, can it be used as firewood? Fire would consume its two ends, but its middle part would only get charred. So is it useful for anything?
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Look, even when it was whole, it was worthless. Now that the fire has consumed it, and it is charred, it's even more useless.
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Therefore, the LORD God proclaims: Of all the trees in the forest, I have decreed that the vine's wood is destined to be consumed by fire. So also have I decreed for those who live in Jerusalem,
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and I have confronted them. They may try to go out from the fire, but the fire will consume them. You will know that I am the LORD, because I confronted them.
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I will turn the land into a ruin because they acted faithlessly, proclaims the LORD God.