The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it,
and it is burned?
EZE 15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the
trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I
give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
EZE 15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from
one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I
am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
EZE 15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed
a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
EZE 16:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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