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No, for vines can’t be used even for making pegs to hang up pots and pans! All they are good for is fuel—and even so, they burn but poorly! 5-6 So they are useless both before and after being put in the fire!

“This is what I mean,” the Lord God says: “The people of Jerusalem are like the vines of the forest—useless before being burned and certainly useless afterwards!

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Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful?(A) Do they make pegs(B) from it to hang things on? And after it is thrown on the fire as fuel and the fire burns both ends and chars the middle, is it then useful for anything?(C) If it was not useful for anything when it was whole, how much less can it be made into something useful when the fire has burned it and it is charred?

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