Then he said to the vinedresser, 'Look, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I haven't found [any]. Cut it down; why does it even waste the ground?'

And if it produces fruit, [fine]. But if not, in the coming [year], you can cut it down.'"

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed [are] the barren, and [the] wombs which did not give birth, and breasts which did not nurse!'

For if they do these things in the green tree, what will happen in the dry?"

Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will mightily confound the glorious ones; and the haughty in pride shall be crushed, and the lofty shall be brought low;

and the lofty ones shall fall by the sword, and Lebanon shall fall with his lofty ones.

And you, son of man- of all the wood, of the branches that are among the trees of the forest, what shall be made of the wood of the vine?

It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly ruined of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for [any] work?

To whom are you compared? Descend, and be debased with the trees of paradise to the depth of the earth. You shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharaoh be, and the multitude of his army, says the Lord God.

Cut down the tree, and pluck off its branches, and shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit- let the wild beasts be removed from under it, and the birds from its branches.

And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and he said, Strip the tree, and destroy it; only leave the stump of its roots in the ground, and [bind it] with a band of iron and brass; and it shall lie in the outer grass, and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with wild beasts, until seven times have passed over it.

But even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw [them] into the fire, and they are burned.

Anyone disregarding the law of Moses dies without compassions on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

For our God is a consuming fire.