27:11 When its branches get brittle, 1 they break;
women come and use them for kindling. 2
For these people lack understanding, 3
therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;
the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
1 tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).
2 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.
3 tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”