8 I will make the land desolate because they have been unfaithful, declares the Sovereign Lord."
8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed
8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord GOD."
8 I'll turn this country into a wilderness because they've been faithless." Decree of God, the Master.
8 Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have persisted in unfaithfulness,' says the Lord God."
8 And I will make the land desolate because my people have been unfaithful to me. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!"
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 15:8
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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.