3 Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?

Other Translations of Ezekiel 15:3

King James Version

3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

English Standard Version

3 Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do people take a peg from it to hang any vessel on it?

The Message

3 Is vine wood ever used to make anything? Is it used to make pegs to hang things from?

New King James Version

3 Is wood taken from it to make any object? Or can men make a peg from it to hang any vessel on?

New Living Translation

3 Can its wood be used for making things, like pegs to hang up pots and pans?

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 15:3

Chapter Contents

Jerusalem like an unfruitful vine.

If a vine be fruitful, it is valuable. But if not fruitful, it is worthless and useless, it is cast into the fire. Thus man is capable of yielding a precious fruit, in living to God; this is the sole end of his existence; and if he fails in this, he is of no use but to be destroyed. What blindness then attaches to those who live in the total neglect of God and of true religion! This similitude is applied to Jerusalem. Let us beware of an unfruitful profession. Let us come to Christ, and seek to abide in him, and to have his words abide in us.