Ezekiel 15:2

or than a branch Perhaps: the vine-branch which is, the words taking up "the vine tree" of previous clause. Owing to the verb the natural sense is: what shall bemade of the wood of the vine among all wood, the vine branchthat is among the trees of the forest? Cf. Ezekiel 15:3. With the comparative sense the accents should be disregarded: what is the wood of the vine more than any wood of the branchwhich is &c. On Israel as the vine cf. Genesis 49:22; Isaiah 5:1; Deuteronomy 32:32; Jeremiah 2:21; Ezekiel 17:5; Ezekiel 19:10; Psalms 80; Hosea 10:1.