Click
here to show/hide instructions.
Instructions on how to use the page:
The commentary for the selected verse is is displayed below.
All commentary was produced against the King James, so the same verse from that translation may appear as well. Hovering your mouse over a commentary's scripture reference attempts to show those verses.
Use the browser's back button to return to the previous page.
Or you can also select a feature from the Just Verses menu appearing at the top of the page.
Selected Verse: Isaiah 27:11 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 27:11 |
Strong Concordance |
When the boughs [07105] thereof are withered [03001], they shall be broken off [07665]: the women [0802] come [0935], and set them on fire [0215]: for it is a people [05971] of no understanding [0998]: therefore he that made [06213] them will not have mercy [07355] on them, and he that formed [03335] them will shew them no favour [02603]. |
| |
King James |
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, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
boughs . . . broken off--so the Jews are called (Rom 11:17, Rom 11:19-20).
set . . . on fire--burn them as fuel; "women" are specified, as probably it was their office to collect fuel and kindle the fire for cooking.
no understanding--as to the ways of God (Deu 32:28-29; Jer 5:21; Hos 4:6). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| 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 blindly and wilfully go on in sin. Therefore - Thus he overthrows their conceit that God would never destroy the work of his own hands. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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 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. |
6 My people [05971] are destroyed [01820] for lack of knowledge [01847]: because thou hast rejected [03988] knowledge [01847], I will also reject [03988] thee, that thou shalt be no priest [03547] to me: seeing thou hast forgotten [07911] the law [08451] of thy God [0430], I will also forget [07911] thy children [01121].
21 Hear [08085] now this, O foolish [05530] people [05971], and without understanding [03820]; which have eyes [05869], and see [07200] not; which have ears [0241], and hear [08085] not:
28 For they are a nation [01471] void [06] of counsel [06098], neither is there any understanding [08394] in them.
29 O that [03863] they were wise [02449], that they understood [07919] this, that they would consider [0995] their latter end [0319]!
19 Thou wilt say [2046] then [3767], The branches [2798] were broken off [1575], that [2443] I [1473] might be graffed in [1461].
20 Well [2573]; because of unbelief [570] they were broken off [1575], and [1161] thou [4771] standest [2476] by faith [4102]. Be [5309] not [3361] highminded [5309], but [235] fear [5399]:
17 And [1161] if some [1536] of the branches [2798] be broken off [1575], and [1161] thou [4771], being [5607] a wild olive tree [65], wert graffed in [1461] among [1722] them [846], and [2532] with [4791] them [1096] partakest [4791] of the root [4491] and [2532] fatness [4096] of the olive tree [1636];
21 Hear [08085] now this, O foolish [05530] people [05971], and without understanding [03820]; which have eyes [05869], and see [07200] not; which have ears [0241], and hear [08085] not:
2 A fool [03684] hath no delight [02654] in understanding [08394], but that his heart [03820] may discover [01540] itself.
32 But whoso committeth adultery [05003] with a woman [0802] lacketh [02638] understanding [03820]: he that doeth [06213] it destroyeth [07843] his own soul [05315].
6 If [3362] a man [5100] abide [3306] not [3362] in [1722] me [1698], he is cast [906] forth [1854] as [5613] a branch [2814], and [2532] is withered [3583]; and [2532] men gather [4863] them [846], and [2532] cast [906] them into [1519] the fire [4442], and [2532] they are burned [2545].
4 Behold, it is cast [05414] into the fire [0784] for fuel [0402]; the fire [0784] devoureth [0398] both [08147] the ends [07098] of it, and the midst [08432] of it is burned [02787]. Is it meet [06743] for any work [04399]?
3 Shall wood [06086] be taken [03947] thereof to do [06213] any work [04399]? or will men take [03947] a pin [03489] of it to hang [08518] any vessel [03627] thereon?
21 For [1063] where [3699] your [5216] treasure [2344] is [2076], there [1563] will [2071] your [5216] heart [2588] be [2071] also [2532].
22 The light [3088] of the body [4983] is [2076] the eye [3788]: if [1437] therefore [3767] thine [4675] eye [3788] be [5600] single [573], thy [4675] whole [3650] body [4983] shall be [2071] full of light [5460].
23 But [1161] if [1437] thine [4675] eye [3788] be [5600] evil [4190], thy [4675] whole [3650] body [4983] shall be [2071] full of darkness [4652]. If [1487] therefore [3767] the light [5457] that is [2076] in [1722] thee [4671] be darkness [4655], how great [4214] is that darkness [4655]!
24 No man [3762] can [1410] serve [1398] two [1417] masters [2962]: for [1063] either [2228] he will hate [3404] the one [1520], and [2532] love [25] the other [2087]; or else [2228] he will hold [472] to the one [1520], and [2532] despise [2706] the other [2087]. Ye cannot [3756] [1410] serve [1398] God [2316] and [2532] mammon [3126].
25 Therefore [1223] [5124] I say [3004] unto you [5213], Take no [3361] thought [3309] for your [5216] life [5590], what [5101] ye shall eat [5315], or [2532] what [5101] ye shall drink [4095]; nor yet for [3366] your [5216] body [4983], what [5101] ye shall put on [1746]. Is [2076] not [3780] the life [5590] more than [4119] meat [5160], and [2532] the body [4983] than raiment [1742]?
26 Behold [1689] [1519] the fowls [4071] of the air [3772]: for [3754] they sow [4687] not [3756], neither [3761] do they reap [2325], nor [3761] gather [4863] into [1519] barns [596]; yet [2532] your [5216] heavenly [3770] Father [3962] feedeth [5142] them [846]. Are [1308] ye [5210] not [3756] much [3123] better than [1308] they [846]?
27 [1161] Which [1537] [5101] of you [5216] by taking thought [3309] can [1410] add [4369] one [1520] cubit [4083] unto [1909] his [846] stature [2244]?
28 And [2532] why [5101] take ye thought [3309] for [4012] raiment [1742]? Consider [2648] the lilies [2918] of the field [68], how [4459] they grow [837]; they toil [2872] not [3756], neither [3761] do they spin [3514]:
29 And yet [1161] I say [3004] unto you [5213], That [3754] even [3761] Solomon [4672] in [1722] all [3956] his [846] glory [1391] was [4016] not [3761] arrayed [4016] like [5613] one [1520] of these [5130].
30 Wherefore [1161], if [1487] God [2316] so [3779] clothe [294] the grass [5528] of the field [68], which to day [4594] is [5607], and [2532] to morrow [839] is cast [906] into [1519] the oven [2823], shall he not [3756] much [4183] more [3123] clothe you [5209], O ye of little faith [3640]?