Ezekiel 15

1 Then this message came to me from the LORD :

2 “Son of man, how does a grapevine compare to a tree? Is a vine’s wood as useful as the wood of a tree?

3 Can its wood be used for making things, like pegs to hang up pots and pans?

4 No, it can only be used for fuel, and even as fuel, it burns too quickly.

5 Vines are useless both before and after being put into the fire!

6 “And this is what the Sovereign LORD says: The people of Jerusalem are like grapevines growing among the trees of the forest. Since they are useless, I have thrown them on the fire to be burned.

7 And I will see to it that if they escape from one fire, they will fall into another. When I turn against them, you will know that I am the LORD .

8 And I will make the land desolate because my people have been unfaithful to me. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 15 Commentary

Chapter 15

Jerusalem like an unfruitful vine.

- If a vine be fruitful, it is valuable. 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.

Chapter Summary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 15

The destruction of Jerusalem is again prophesied of in this chapter, and is set forth under the simile of a vine tree, which, for its uselessness, is committed to the fire. The simile is in Eze 15:1-5; the application of it in Eze 15:6-8.