
Text -- Isaiah 27:11 (NET)




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That there may be no hopes of their recovery.

He mentions women, because the men would be destroyed.

Wesley: Isa 27:11 - -- They know not the things which concerns their peace, but they blindly and wilfully go on in sin.
They know not the things which concerns their peace, but they blindly and wilfully go on in sin.

Wesley: Isa 27:11 - -- Thus he overthrows their conceit that God would never destroy the work of his own hands.
Thus he overthrows their conceit that God would never destroy the work of his own hands.
So the Jews are called (Rom 11:17, Rom 11:19-20).

JFB: Isa 27:11 - -- Burn them as fuel; "women" are specified, as probably it was their office to collect fuel and kindle the fire for cooking.
Burn them as fuel; "women" are specified, as probably it was their office to collect fuel and kindle the fire for cooking.
Clarke -> Isa 27:11
Clarke: Isa 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 th...
The boughs thereof "Her boughs"-
The scarcity of fuel, especially wood, in most parts of the east is so great, that they supply it with every thing capable of burning; cow-dung dried, roots, parings of fruit, withered stalks of herbs and flowers; see Mat 6:21-30. Vine-twigs are particularly mentioned as used for fuel in dressing their food, by D’ Arvieux; La Roque, Palestine, p. 198. Ezekiel says, in his parable of the vine, used figuratively for the people of God, as the vineyard is here: "Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; "Eze 15:3, Eze 15:4. "If a man abide not in one, "saith our Lord, "he is cast forth as a branch of the vine and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned;"Joh 15:6. They employed women and children to gather these things, and they laid them up in store for use. The dressing and pruning their vines afforded a good supply of the last sort of fuel; but the prophet says that the vines themselves of the beloved vineyard shall be blasted, withered, and broken, and the women shall come and gather them up, and carry away the whole of them to make their fires for domestic uses. See Harmer’ s Observations, vol. i., p. 254, etc.
Calvin -> Isa 27:11
Calvin: Isa 27:11 - -- 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...
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
The women coming shall burn it When he says that “women shall come,” he means that God will have no need of robust soldiers to execute his judgment, and that he will only make use of the agency of women. This exhibits in a still stronger light the disgracefulness of the punishment, for he threatens that the calamity shall also be accompanied by disgrace; because it is more shameful and humiliating to be plundered by “women,” who are unused to war, than by men.
For it is a people of no understanding At length he assigns the reason of so heavy a calamity. At first sight it might appear to be excessively harsh that the Lord should permit the people whom he had chosen to be wretchedly tormented and scattered, and not to render them any assistance; for it is inconsistent with his kindness and fatherly love which he bears towards them. But the Prophet shews that God had good reason for punishing the Jews with such severity; for they were destitute of knowledge and sound “understanding.”
Nor is it without reason that he pronounces ignorance to have been the source of all evils; for since “the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom,” (Pro 1:7; Psa 111:10,) they who despise God and obey the wicked passions of their flesh are justly condemned by the Spirit of God as blind and mad. And yet such ignorance does not at all excuse us or lessen the guilt of our wickedness; for they who sin are conscious of their sinfulness, though they are blinded by their lust. Wickedness and ignorance are therefore closely connected, but the connection is of such a nature that ignorance proceeds from the sinful disposition of the mind. Hence it comes that “ignorance,” or “ignorances,” is the general name given by the Hebrew writers to every kind of sin, and hence also that saying of Moses,
“O that they were wise and understood!”
(Deu 32:29.)
Any man will easily perceive this, if he consider how great is the power of evil passions to trouble us; for when we have been deprived of the light of doctrine, and are void of understanding, the devil drives us as it were to madness, so that we do not dread the arm of God, and have no respect for his holy word.
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them For the purpose of still heightening their terror, he at length takes away all hope of pardon; for even if a remnant was preserved, the wrath of God did not on that account cease to rage against the multitude at large. The Prophet here calls God the Maker and Creator of Israel, not in the same manner that he is called the Creator of heaven and earth, (Gen 1:1,) but inasmuch as he has formed his Church by the Spirit of regeneration. In like manner Paul also declares, that in that sense we are
TSK -> Isa 27:11
TSK: Isa 27:11 - -- the boughs : Psa 80:15, Psa 80:16; Eze 15:2-8, Eze 20:47; Mat 3:10; Joh 15:6
for it is : Isa 1:3, Isa 44:18-20; Deu 4:6, Deu 32:28, Deu 32:29; Jer 4:2...
the boughs : Psa 80:15, Psa 80:16; Eze 15:2-8, Eze 20:47; Mat 3:10; Joh 15:6
for it is : Isa 1:3, Isa 44:18-20; Deu 4:6, Deu 32:28, Deu 32:29; Jer 4:22, Jer 5:4, Jer 5:5, Jer 5:21, Jer 5:22, Jer 8:7; Hos 4:6; Mat 13:15, Mat 13:19; Rom 1:28, Rom 1:31
therefore : Isa 43:1, Isa 43:7, Isa 44:20,Isa 44:21, Isa 44:24; Gen 6:6, Gen 6:7; Deu 32:18-25; 2Ch 36:16, 2Ch 36:17; Psa 106:40; Eze 9:10; 1Th 2:16; 2Th 1:8, 2Th 1:9; Jam 2:13

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Barnes -> Isa 27:11
Barnes: Isa 27:11 - -- When the boughs thereof are withered - This is a further description of the desolation which would come upon Babylon. The idea is, that Babylon...
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, and the branches should fall to be collected for burning. That is, the desolation should be entire, undisturbed, and long continued The idea of the desolation is, therefore, in this verse carried forward, and a new circumstance is introduced to make it more graphic and striking. Lowth, however, supposes that this refers to the vineyard, and to the fact that the vine-twigs are collected in the East from the scarcity of fuel for burning. But it seems to me that the obvious reference is to Babylon, and that it is an image of the great and prolonged desolation that was coming upon that city.
They shall be broken off - That is, by their own weight as they decay, or by the hands of those who come to collect them for fuel.
The women come - Probably it was the office mainly of the women to collect the fuel which might be necessary for culinary purposes. In eastern climates but little is needed; and that is collected of the twigs of vineyards, of withered stubble, straw, hay, dried roots, etc., wherever they can be found.
And set them on fire - That is, to burn them for fuel.
Of no understanding - Of no right views of God and his government - wicked, sinful Pro 6:32; Pro 18:2; Jer 5:21.
Poole -> Isa 27:11
Poole: Isa 27:11 - -- 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 br...
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 possibility of their recovery.
The women he mentions women, either because it is their usual work in the country to make fires, and to gather fuel for them, or to signify that the men should be generally destroyed.
It is a people of no understanding they do not understand either me or themselves, either my word or works; they know not the things which concern their own peace and happiness, but, like brute beasts made to be destroyed, they blindly and wilfully go on in those courses which will bring them to certain ruin. He that made them ; both as they are creatures, and as they are his people; for this also is expressed by making or forming, as Psa 100:3 102:18 149:2 . Thus he overthroweth their false and presumptuous conceits, that God would never destroy the work of his own hands, nor the seed of Abraham his friend for ever; and plainly declareth the contrary.
Haydock -> Isa 27:11
Haydock: Isa 27:11 - -- Women. The princes shall be weak and irresolute. (Calmet) ---
Septuagint, "Hither, ye women, coming from the shew. For it is not an intelligent p...
Women. The princes shall be weak and irresolute. (Calmet) ---
Septuagint, "Hither, ye women, coming from the shew. For it is not an intelligent people."
Gill -> Isa 27:11
Gill: Isa 27:11 - -- 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 b...
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 Isa 27:10; but which, in a hot dry summer, are withered and dried up, and so are easily broken, and are fit for nothing but the fire; hence it follows:
the women come and set them on fire; or "gather" them f in order to burn them; as is commonly done with withered branches, Joh 15:6 it may design the burning of the whore of Rome by the kings of the earth; for as antichrist is signified by a woman, so the ten kings that shall hate her, and burn her flesh with fire, may be signified by women; see Rev 17:16. The word here used signifies to illuminate, or give light, which is done when wood is set on fire; hence the Vulgate Latin renders it, "women coming, and teaching it"; and so the Targum,
"women shall come into the house of their gods, and teach them;''
as the woman Jezebel does, Rev 2:20 the former sense is best:
for it is a people of no understanding; or "understandings": that is, the people that inhabit the above city, they are sottish and stupid, have no understanding of God and divine things, of the Scriptures, and the doctrines of them; among whom this maxim obtains, that ignorance is the mother of devotion; they are under a judicial blindness, are given up to strong delusions to believe a lie, 2Th 2:10,
therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them; and he that formed them will show them no favour; but his wrath shall be poured out upon them to the uttermost, which will be fulfilled in the seven vials, and in the destruction of Rome, and the everlasting ruin of the worshippers of the man of sin; see Rev 16:1 no argument can be taken from men's being God's creatures and offspring, and from his being the former and maker of them, to their salvation; or because they are so, therefore shall be saved when they are sinful and sottish; for, being like brutes without understanding, they shall perish as they, without mercy.

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MHCC -> Isa 27:6-13
MHCC: Isa 27:6-13 - --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 sou...
Matthew Henry -> Isa 27:7-13
Matthew Henry: Isa 27:7-13 - -- Here is the prophet again singing of mercy and judgment, not, as before, judgment to the enemies and mercy to the church, but judgment to the church...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Isa 27:10-11
Keil-Delitzsch: Isa 27:10-11 - --
The prophet said this from out of the midst of the state of punishment, and was therefore able still further to confirm the fact, that the punishmen...
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Constable: Isa 24:1--27:13 - --2. Divine victory over the nations chs. 24-27
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