Ezekiel 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. 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.
Ezekiel 15:7 belongs to the first twenty chapters of Ezekiel, uttered when Ezekiel stood as God's mouthpiece among the captives by the river Chebar in Babylonia at the same time Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem. Ezekiel was of a priestly family and carried on his prophetic work among the captives of Israel between the years 595 and 574, beginning and closing his labor just a little later than Jeremiah. Before that work began God revealed His glory to him in wonderful visions and impressed His great majesty upon him, so that having once seen God he would not fear the face of man when sent to meet sinners. The verse itself is an awful message of warning and reproof directed to the sinners among his own people.
It sets forth the grape-vine in its leafless, stripped condition, with slender, gaunt, dry-looking stem and rugged bark, as the most unpromising of all fruit trees. In that state it is useless for any woodwork, not even for making a pin on which to hang a vessel, and is fit only to be cast into the fire for fuel where both ends are devoured and the middle is burned. That lesson of the burned vine will be repeated in the harvest described in Revelation 14:18, 19.