ECB(i)
3 Is timber taken to work any work? Or a stake taken to hang any instrument thereon?
4 Behold, it is given into the fire for fuel; the fire consumes both the ends thereof and scorches the midst thereof. Prospers it for work?
5 Behold, in being integrious, it works no work: How much less work works it when the fire consumes and scorches?
6 So thus says Adonay Yah Veh: As I give the vine tree among the trees of the forest as fire for fuel, thus I give the settlers of Yeru Shalem:
7 and I give my face against them; they come from the fire; and fire consumes them: and you know I - Yah Veh when I set my face against them: