以西结书 15

1 耶和华的话临到我说：

Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 “人子啊，葡萄树比别样树有什么强处？葡萄枝比众树枝有什么好处？

“Son of man, how is a vine better than any tree with branches that is among the trees in a forest?

3 其上可以取木料做什么工用，可以取来做钉子挂什么器皿吗？

Do people take wood from a vine to make anything? Or do they make a peg from it to hang anything on it?

4 看哪，已经抛在火中当作柴烧，火既烧了两头，中间也被烧了，还有益于工用吗？

See! If it is thrown into a fire as fuel, and if the fire has burned both of its ends and also the middle, is it good for anything?

5 完全的时候尚且不合乎什么工用，何况被火烧坏，还能合乎什么工用吗？”

See! When it was complete, it could not make anything; surely then, when the fire has burned, then it still will not make anything useful.

6 所以，主耶和华如此说：“众树以内的葡萄树，我怎样使它在火中当柴，也必照样待耶路撒冷的居民。

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Unlike the trees in the forests, I have given the vine as fuel for fires; I will act in the same way toward the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

7 我必向他们变脸；他们虽从火中出来，火却要烧灭他们。我向他们变脸的时候，你们就知道我是耶和华。

For I will set my face against them. Though they come out from the fire, yet the fire will consume them; so you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

8 我必使地土荒凉，因为他们行事干犯我。这是主耶和华说的。”

Then I will make the land into an abandoned wasteland because they have committed sin—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.”