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| 15:1 | 
                                 
                                    The word of the LORD came to me:
                                 
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| 15:2 | 
                                 
                                    "Son of man, how is the wood of a vine better than that of a branch on any of the trees in the forest?
                                 
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| 15:3 | 
                                 
                                    Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?
                                 
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| 15:4 | 
                                 
                                    And after it is thrown on the fire as fuel and the fire burns both ends and chars the middle, is it then useful for anything?
                                 
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| 15:5 | 
                                 
                                    If it was not useful for anything when it was whole, how much less can it be made into something useful when the fire has burned it and it is charred?
                                 
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| 15:6 | 
                                 
                                    "Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem.
                                 
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| 15:7 | 
                                 
                                    I will set my face against them. Although they have come out of the fire, the fire will yet consume them. And when I set my face against them, you will know that I am the LORD.
                                 
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| 15:8 | 
                                 
                                    I will make the land desolate because they have been unfaithful, declares the Sovereign LORD."
                                 
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