Ezekiel 15:3
Good News Translation
Can you use it to make anything? Can you even make a peg out of it to hang things on?

New Revised Standard Version
Is wood taken from it to make anything? Does one take a peg from it on which to hang any object?

Contemporary English Version
because the wood of a grapevine can't be used to make anything, not even a small peg to hang things on.

New American Bible
Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Can someone make even a peg out of it on which to hang a vessel?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?

Jeremiah 24:8 And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are bad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this city, and that dwell in the land of Egypt.

Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.

Mark 9:50 Salt is good. But if the salt become unsavoury, wherewith will you season it? Have salt in you: and have peace among you.

Luke 14:34,35 Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? . . .

Context
Jerusalem the Useless Vine
2Son 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? 3Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?4Behold 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?…
Cross References
Judges 4:21
So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away and died.

Ezekiel 15:2
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?

Ezekiel 15:4
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?

Ezekiel 15:2
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