Ezekiel Chapter 15

As a vine cut down is fit for nothing but the fire; so it shall be with Jerusalem, for her sins.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2 Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests?
3 Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?
4 Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath consumed both ends thereof, and the midst thereof is reduced to ashes: shall it be useful for any work?
5 Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall any work be made of it?
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among the trees of the forests which I have given to the fire to be consumed, so will I deliver up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
7 And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire, and fire shall consume them: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against them.
8 And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Et factus est sermo Domini ad me, dicens:

2 Fili hominis, quid fiet de ligno vitis,
ex omnibus lignis nemorum
quæ sunt inter ligna silvarum?
3 numquid tolletur de ea lignum ut fiat opus,
aut fabricabitur de ea paxillus
ut dependeat in eo quodcumque vas?
4 Ecce igni datum est in escam:
utramque partem ejus consumpsit ignis,
et medietas ejus redacta est in favillam:
numquid utile erit ad opus?
5 Etiam cum esset integrum,
non erat aptum ad opus:
quanto magis cum illud ignis devoraverit et combusserit,
nihil ex eo fiet operis?
6 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Quomodo lignum vitis inter ligna silvarum,
quod dedi igni ad devorandum,
sic tradam habitatores Jerusalem.
7 Et ponam faciem meam in eos:
de igne egredientur,
et ignis consumet eos:
et scietis quia ego Dominus,
cum posuero faciem meam in eos,
8 et dedero terram inviam et desolatam,
eo quod prævaricatores extiterint,
dicit Dominus Deus.

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