5. “See, when it was intact, it was not made for work, how much less when the fire has burned it and it is scorched shall it still be used for work?
6. “Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, ‘As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I shall give up the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.
7. ‘And I shall set My face against them. They shall go out from one fire, but another fire consumes them. And you shall know that I am יהוה, when I set My face against them.
8. ‘And I shall make the land a wasteland, because they committed trespass,’ declares the Master יהוה.”