Ezekiel 15:1-8

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+title = "Ezekiel 15:1–8"
+date = "2023-04-06"
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+### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel15.1-8)
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+The Lord now compares Jerusalem to a woody vine. In viticulture, grapes are
+usually only produced by vines that grew the previous year, so the old wood is
+pruned away to maximize yield. It'd be nice to be able to use that wood for
+something, but it's kind of thin and twisty so you can't really make anything
+out of it. Not even a peg to hang something on a wall. Instead it is just
+thrown into a fire for fuel.
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+The Lord intensifies the comparison by noting how the charred middle of the
+vine is even more useless after the ends have been burned away. One might
+normally expect the whole vine to be consumed by the fire, but it might make
+sense that the fire represents the earlier deportation of the upper classes,
+but the rest of the city's inhabitants also have their judgement to go through.
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+You can make even the most useless things useful in Your plan.