2[YAH] says, “‘Son of Adam,’ is a vine stalk better than a tree? Is vinous pulp [more useful] than wood from a forest?
3From a [vine-stalk,] can you saw out a board [sturdy] enough to do any work? Can men even carve pot-hanging pegs from [vine stalks]?
4Look, 😇. [People] throw [vines] into fire as kindling. Because [dead vines] aren't useful for any kind of work. A flame devours [the stalk] at both ends 'til the middle burns [to a crisp].
5See, 😇: even an intact [fresh-cut living] vine fails to serve any [structural] purpose. So [imagine] how many fewer [construction] tasks [a vine can] perform after a hot blaze eats it down to ash?”
6Thus AdonaiYHVH explains, “Like a [weak] vine-stalk among the trees of the forest that [people] hurl into the fire as fuel, so I come to [incinerate] Jerusalem's [criminal] denizens.
7I set my face against the [hypocrites], 😇. As they escape one fire, an inferno devours them. Finally, you grasp [the meaning of my name] (YHVH{The-Omnipresent-Eternal-One}) when I set my [fire-snorting] face against [Judeo-Christianity's criminals]. Heaven witnesses every sin we hide.
8I let the land lie stunningly [empty, to let it rest from] the disasters that sham [‘saints’] wreak [upon it],” explains AdonaiYHVH.
Older Testament 
