Today's Favorite Verse: Ezekiel 15:2, 5
"Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?"
I think James E. Talmage describes this pretty clearly. Jerusalem was so worthless it hardly had value in being burned.
"The people at Jerusalem in Ezekiel’s day were similar to those referred to by Isaiah in his parable of a vineyard (see Isaiah 5:1–25). Though they had been set up as the Lord’s vineyard to produce fruit, they did not produce and were of little value.
“The worthlessness of a vine save only for its fruit was set forth by the Lord through His prophet Ezekiel (15:2–5); and truly it is so, that the wood of the grape plant is fit for nothing but burning; the whole vine as wood is inferior to a branch from a forest tree (verse 3). And Israel is represented as such a vine, precious if but fruitful, otherwise nothing but fuel and that of poor quality.”
(James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ, p. 542.)
(Old Testament Student Manual Kings-Malachi, "Ezekiel: Watchman of Israel", (26-42) Inhabitants of Jerusalem Compared to a Useless Vine)
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