Lamentationes 15:5

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Etiam cum esset integrum,
non erat aptum ad opus:
quanto magis cum illud ignis devoraverit et combusserit,
nihil ex eo fiet operis?

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Etiam cum esset integrum, non erat aptum ad opus : quanto magis cum illud ignis devoraverit et combusserit, nihil ex eo fiet operis ?

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Etiam cum esset integrum, non erat aptum ad opus; quanto magis cum ignis illud devoraverit et combusserit, nihil ex eo fiet operis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

meet: Heb. made fit, Jeremiah 3:16, *marg.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, when it was whole it was meet for no work,.... Before it was cut into pieces, and east into the fire, it was not fit to make so much as a pin of to hang anything on; so Israel, when all together, before the ten tribes were carried captive, or the Jews before the captivity of Jeconiah, were useless and unfruitful, and to every good work reprobate:

how much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? as its wood is good for nothing before it is burned, its ashes are useless after.