1 Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said,
2 “Son of man, are the pieces of wood from a grapevine any better than the little branches cut from trees in the forest?
3 Can you use that wood from a grapevine to make anything? Can you use that wood to make pegs to hang dishes on?
4 People throw that wood into the fire. The ends burn, and the middle is scorched.
5 If you cannot make anything from that wood before it is burned, you surely cannot make anything from that wood after it is burned!
6 So people throw the pieces of wood from a grapevine into the fire. It is just like wood from any other tree in the forest. In the same way I will throw the people living in Jerusalem into the fire!” This is what the Lord GOD said.