Ezekiel 15:5
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?
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... Now follows the application of the simile:
as the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel; to be burnt, as other trees…
The prophet, we may suppose, was thinking what a glorious city Jerusalem was, above any city in the world; it was the crown and joy of the whole earth; and therefore what a pity it was that it should…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
meet for no work Lit., it could not be made into, or, used forany work; how much less, when the fire hath devoured it and it is charred, shall it be any more used for, or made into any work.