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Isaiah 27:11

women come, and set them on fire i.e. come thither to gather fuel.

a people of no understanding (lit. "not a people of discernment") because it does not perceive that deliverance is delayed solely by its continued impenitence (ch. Isaiah 44:18).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 27:11. _THE BOUGHS THEREOF_ - "Her boughs"] קציריה _ketsireyha_, MS. and Vulg.; that is, the boughs of the _vineyard_, referring still to the subject of the dialogue above. The scarcity...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHEN THE BOUGHS THEREOF ARE WITHERED - This is a further description of the desolation which would come upon Babylon. The idea is, that Babylon would be forsaken until the trees should grow and decay,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 27 ISRAEL'S ENEMIES OVERTHROWN AND THE GREAT RESTORATION 1. _Assyria, Babylon and Egypt punished (Isaiah 27:1)_ 2. _What Jehovah has done and will do (Isaiah 27:2)_ 3. The vineyard established...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S GENTLE CHASTISEMENT AND THE TERMS ON WHICH IT MAY BE PARDONED. This is an insertion out of connexion with the context, and it does not itself hang well together. The writer asks, Has Yahweh p...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE BOUGHS, &C.. her harvest drieth up. THEY. Feminine., i.e. the "stones" of Isaiah 27:9. BROKEN OFF. broken, or destroyed....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BY THIS THEREFORE, &C.— By _this,_ &c.—_And this shall be all the fruit of removing his sin, that he make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones beaten asunder,_ &c. Isaiah 27:10 _because the defe...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. JOINED BY DIVINE PURGING TEXT: Isaiah 27:7-13 7 Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? 8 In measu...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. The powers hostile to God's people are here symbolically represented as monsters. LEVIATHAN THE PIERCING (RV 'swift') SERPENT perhaps stands for Assyria, watered by the rapid Tigris, and 'leviathan...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    IT] i.e. Israel....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 27 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST LEVIATHAN V1 On that day, the *Lord will seize his powerf...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    No names appear. We have here a general description of society without God. If people leave out God from their lives, they merely exist. Life has no purpose. GOD’S GREAT PURPOSE V12 On that day the...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHEN THE BOUGHS THEREOF ARE WITHERED... — The picture of the wasted city receives another touch. Shrubs cover its open spaces (perhaps the prophet thinks of the gardens and parks within the walls of a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בִּ יבֹ֤שׁ קְצִירָהּ֙ תִּשָּׁבַ֔רְנָה נָשִׁ֕ים בָּאֹ֖ות...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXIX GOD'S POOR DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 27:1 WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and th...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S CARE FOR HIS VINEYARD Isaiah 27:1-13 Throughout these Chapter s we must remember that the doom of Babylon and the restoration of God's people are symbolical of other events, for which the world...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This circle of prophecy ends with a message which describes the process toward ultimate restoration, and announces its certainty. The way to restoration is the way of judgment, and this the prophet fi...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the (l) women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, a...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Women. The princes shall be weak and irresolute. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Hither, ye women, coming from the shew. For it is not an intelligent people."_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I detain the Reader over this verse, just to remark, that though, in the first view, the doctrine may seem harsh, yet the proper apprehension presently clears it up, and stops such a conclusion. The s...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._When its harvest shall wither. _(207) Some think that the Prophet has in his eye the metaphor of a vineyard, which he employed at the beginning of the chapter, and therefore they translate קציר (_...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Finally, Jehovah invites His people to hide themselves a little moment, while He comes out of His place to execute vengeance (chap. 27). The power of Satan in this world and among men shall be destroy...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHEN THE BOUGHS THEREOF ARE WITHERED, THEY SHALL BE BROKEN OFF,.... This city is compared to a tree, whose branches are not only gnawed and consumed by cattle, as in the former verse Isaiah 27:10; bu...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Yet_, &c. Before this glorious promise, concerning the removal of Israel's sin and calamity, shall be fulfilled, a dreadful and desolating judgment shall come upon them. _The defenced city shall be d...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off, the twigs of the dry shrubs falling off; THE WOMEN COME AND SET THEM ON FIRE, gathering them for fuel; FOR IT IS A PEOPLE OF NO UNDERSTA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GATHERING OF THE CHURCH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-13 In the days of the gospel, the latter days, the gospel church shall be more firmly fixed than the Jewish church, and shall spread further. May our souls be continually watered and kept, that we...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHEN THE BOUGHS THEREOF ARE WITHERED; when they shall begin to wither, as they will when they are thus gnawed and cropped by cattle. THEY SHALL BE BROKEN OFF, that there may be no hopes nor possibilit...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 27:11 boughs H7105 withered H3001 (H8800) off H7665 (H8735) women H802 come H935 (H8802) fire...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FATE OF THE DEFENCED CITY (ISAIAH 27:10). They must not put their trust in their defenced cities, for those will fail them. For, because of their lack of understanding, their defenced city will be...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Punishment of the proud enemy of God's people. Israel restored and fruitful. CHARACTERS: God, serpent, dragon. CONCLUSION: When the Lord comes to punish the inhabitants of the earth, He wil...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 27:1. _In that day the Lord shall punish leviathan._ It would seem that the Assyrian and Chaldean empire are here intended. See on Job 41:1; Amos 9:13. The desolations mentioned in the tenth ve...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _It is a people of no understanding_ A DREADFUL DENUNCIATION OF JUDGMENT I. THE JUDGMENT DENOUNCER. 1. Great desolation as to their outward state (Isaiah 27:10, and former part of Isaiah 27:11). 2....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE DOOM OF THE INCORRIGIBLE Isaiah 27:10. _Yet the defenced city, &c._ I. WHAT A WONDERFUL PICTURE! Proud Babylon so utterly overthrown that on its site cattle feed, and women gather dried sticks fo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 27:1 THE TRIPLE JUDGMENT ON THE POWERS OF DARKNESS. The crowning judgment of all is now briefly described. "In that day"—the day of God's vengeance—when all his other enemies have b...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 27: In that day (Isaiah 27:1) Now what day? In the day in which God is bringing the Great Tribulation upon the earth. In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall pun...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 2:16; 2 Chronicles 36:16; 2 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Thessalonians 1:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Broken — That there may be no hopes of their recovery. Women — He mentions women, because the men would be destroyed. Not understanding — They know not the things which concerns their peace, but they...

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