Lamentationes 15:4

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Ecce igni datum est in escam:
utramque partem ejus consumpsit ignis,
et medietas ejus redacta est in favillam:
numquid utile erit ad opus?

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Ecce igni datum est in escam : utramque partem ejus consumpsit ignis, et medietas ejus redacta est in favillam : numquid utile erit ad opus ?

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ecce igni datum est in escam, utramque partem eius consumpsit ignis, et medietas eius adusta est; numquid utile erit ad opus?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it is cast: Psalms 80:16, Isaiah 27:11, John 15:6, Hebrews 6:8

the fire: Isaiah 1:31, Amos 4:11, Malachi 4:1, Matthew 3:12, Hebrews 12:29

Is it meet: Heb. Will it prosper

Reciprocal: Job 15:30 - the flame Jeremiah 11:16 - with Ezekiel 19:12 - the fire Matthew 13:30 - burn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel, That is; a vine tree when cut down, or a branch when cut off, it is good for nothing else; and that is the use it is generally put to; see John 15:6; and this, it is suggested, would be the end of the Jewish nation; who were become by their sins like a wild vine, and were fit fuel for the fire of divine wrath:

the fire devoureth both the ends of it; the branch cast into it, and so is quickly consumed. Kimchi explains this by Isaiah 9:12; "the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind, and they devour Israel with open mouth"; and Abendana of the ten tribes; but it seems only to design how soon the fire takes it; and how inevitable the consumption is when it is fired at both ends:

and the midst of it is burnt: presently; it being dried, and reduced to a brand by the heat of the fire at both ends: this Kimchi interprets of the city of Jerusalem, which was in the midst of the land:

is it meet for [any] work? no; for if it was not fit for any work when cut down, or cut off, much less when burnt in the fire.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, it is cast into the fire - The wood is in itself useless for any purpose; but what if it have been cast into the fire, and half burned, what of it then?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 15:4. The fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. — Judea is like a vine branch thrown into the fire, which seizes on both the ends, and scorches the middle: so both the extremities of the land is wasted; and the middle, Jerusalem, is now threatened with a siege, and by and by will be totally destroyed.