Ezekiel 15

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Thus the word of the LORD came to me:	1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, what makes the wood of the vine better than any other wood? That branch among the trees of the forest!	2 Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests?
3 Can you use its wood to make anything worthwhile? Can you make even a peg from it, to hang on it any kind of vessel?	3 Shall wood be taken of if, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?
4 If you throw it on the fire as fuel and the fire devours both ends and even the middle is scorched, is it still good for anything?	4 Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath consumed both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is reduced to ashes: shall it be useful for any work?
5 Why, even when it was whole it was good for nothing; how much less, when the fire has devoured and scorched it, can it be used for anything!	5 Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall any work be made of it?
6 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have destined as fuel for the fire, do I make the inhabitants of Jerusalem.	6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among the trees of the forests which I have given to the fire to be consumed, so will I deliver up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
7 I will set my face against them; they have escaped from the fire, but the fire shall devour them. Thus you shall know that I am the LORD, when I turn my face against them.	7 And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire, and fire shall consume them : and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against them.
8 I will make the land a waste, because they have broken faith, says the Lord GOD.	8 And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.