Psalms 80:16

80:16 It is burned ¹  and cut down.

They die because you are displeased with them. ² 

Isaiah 27:11

27:11 When its branches get brittle, ³  they break;

women come and use them for kindling. ⁴ 

For these people lack understanding, ⁵ 

therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;

the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

John 15:6

15:6 If anyone does not remain ⁶  in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, ⁷  and are burned up. ⁸ 

Hebrews 6:8

6:8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; ⁹  its fate is to be burned.

¹ tn Heb “burned with fire.”

² tn Heb “because of the rebuke of your face they perish.”

³ tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

⁴ tn Heb “women come [and] light it.” The city is likened to a dead tree with dried up branches that is only good for firewood.

⁵ tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”

⁶ tn Or “reside.”

⁷ sn Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire. The author does not tell who it is who does the gathering and throwing into the fire. Although some claim that realized eschatology is so prevalent in the Fourth Gospel that no references to final eschatology appear at all, the fate of these branches seems to point to the opposite. The imagery is almost certainly that of eschatological judgment, and recalls some of the OT vine imagery which involves divine rejection and judgment of disobedient Israel (Ezek 15:4-6, 19:12).

⁸ tn Grk “they gather them up and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.”

⁹ tn Grk “near to a curse.”