Isaías 27:11

11 Quando os seus ramos se secam, são quebrados; vêm as mulheres e lhes ateiam fogo; porque este povo não é povo de entendimento; por isso aquele que o fez não se compadecerá dele, e aquele que o formou não lhe mostrará nenhum favor.

Isaías 27:11 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 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 by cattle, as in the former verse ( Isaiah 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 ^F6 in order to burn them; as is commonly done with withered branches, ( John 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 ( Revelation 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, ( Revelation 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, ( 2 Thessalonians 2:10 2 Thessalonians 2:11 ) : 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 ( Revelation 16:1-19 ) ( 18:10 ) ( Revelation 14:10 Revelation 14:11 ) 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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FOOTNOTES:

F6 So Abendana in Miclol Yophi observes, this is the sense some give of the word, taking it to be the same as is used in Cant. v. 1.

Isaías 27:11 In-Context

9 Por isso se expiará a iniqüidade de Jacó; e este será todo o fruto da remoção do seu pecado: ele fará todas as pedras do altar como pedras de cal feitas em pedaços, de modo que os aserins e as imagens do sol não poderão ser mais levantados.

10 porque a cidade fortificada está solitária, uma habitação rejeitada e abandonada como um deserto; ali pastarão os bezerros, ali também se deitarão e devorarão os seus ramos.

11 Quando os seus ramos se secam, são quebrados; vêm as mulheres e lhes ateiam fogo; porque este povo não é povo de entendimento; por isso aquele que o fez não se compadecerá dele, e aquele que o formou não lhe mostrará nenhum favor.

12 Naquele dia o Senhor padejará o seu trigo desde as correntes do Rio, até o ribeiro do Egito; e vós, ó filhos de Israel, sereis colhidos um a um.

13 E naquele dia se tocará uma grande trombeta; e os que andavam perdidos pela terra da Assíria, e os que foram desterrados para a terra do Egito tornarão a vir; e adorarão ao Senhor no monte santo em Jerusalém.