Isaiah 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.

Ge 6:6,7; De 4:6; De 32:18-25; De 32:28,29; 2Ch 36:16,17; Ps 80:15,16; Ps 106:40; Isa 1:3; Isa 43:1,7; Isa 44:18-20; Isa 44:20,21,24; Jer 4:22; Jer 5:4,5,21,22; Jer 8:7; Eze 9:10; Eze 15:2-8; Eze 20:47; Ho 4:6; Mt 3:10; Mt 13:15,19; Joh 15:6; Ro 1:28,31; 1Th 2:16; 2Th 1:8,9; Jas 2:13

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.”