Ezekiel 15:5
If it was useless before it was burned, now that it's been burned and charred through, it's even more useless!
Jeremiah 3:16
"And in those days when you increase in numbers and multiply in the land," declares the LORD, "people will no longer say, "The Ark of the Covenant of the LORD,' and it won't come to mind, and they won't remember it or miss it, nor will it be made again.
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Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
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Luke 23:31
And if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"