11 When its (A)limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of (B)discernment,
Therefore (C)their Maker (D)will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

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Therefore, this is what the Lord [a]God says: ‘As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 15:6 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch

14 And (A)fire has gone out from its stem;
It has consumed its shoots and fruit,
So that there is no [a]strong stem in it,
A scepter to rule.’”

This is a song of mourning, and has become a song of mourning.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:14 Lit stem of strength

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