Yehezkiel 15

1 TUHAN berkata kepadaku,

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2 "Hai manusia fana, apakah kelebihan kayu anggur dari kayu lainnya di hutan? Apakah keunggulan pohon anggur dari pohon-pohon di hutan?

“Son of man, what can be made from the stalk of a vine, compared to all the plants of the woods that are among the trees of the forests?

3 Dapatkah kayunya dipakai untuk membuat sesuatu? Dapatkah dijadikan gantungan untuk menyangkutkan perkakas?

Can any wood be taken from it, so that it may be made into a work, or formed into a peg so as to hang some kind of vessel upon it?

4 Tak ada gunanya selain dijadikan kayu bakar. Dan kalau kedua ujungnya habis terbakar, dan bagian tengahnya pun menjadi arang, masihkah ada gunanya?

Behold, it is used in the fire as fuel. The fire consumes both its ends; and its middle is reduced to ashes. So how can it be useful for any work?

5 Tidak ada! Bahkan sebelum dibakar, tak dapat dipergunakan. Apalagi sesudah dibakar dan dihanguskan api!"

Even when it was whole, it was unsuitable for a work. How much more so, when fire has devoured it and burned it up, will nothing of it be useful?

6 Sebab itu TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi berkata, "Seperti kayu pohon anggur yang diambil dari hutan dan dibakar, begitu juga akan Kuperlakukan penduduk Yerusalem!

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Like the stalk of the vine among the trees of the forests, which I have given to be devoured by fire, so will I deliver the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

7 Aku akan menghukum mereka. Meskipun mereka telah lolos dari api, namun api juga yang akan membinasakan mereka. Maka tahulah kamu bahwa Akulah TUHAN.

And I will set my face against them. They will go away from fire, and yet fire will consume them. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have set my face against them,

8 Mereka tidak setia kepada-Ku, sebab itu, tanah itu Kujadikan gurun. Aku TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi telah berbicara."

and when I will have made their land impassable and desolate. For they have stood forth as transgressors, says the Lord God.”