Ezekiel 15:4
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
Ezekiel 15:4 belongs to the first twenty chapters of Ezekiel, delivered through Ezekiel as God's mouthpiece among the captives in Babylonia by the river Chebar while Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem.
The verse pictures the grapevine in its winter state, stripped of leaves and most unpromising of all fruit trees. In that condition it presents a slender, gaunt, dry-looking stem with rugged bark. Its wood cannot be taken for any work, not even to make a pin on which to hang a vessel. Instead it is cast into the fire for fuel, where both ends are devoured and the middle is burned so that it is fit for nothing.
The burning of that worthless vine teaches a lesson of judgment. That same judgment is to be repeated in the harvest described in Revelation 14:18-19.