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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 27:11

the boughs, &c. = her harvest drieth up. they. Feminine., i.e. the "stones" of Isaiah 27:9 . broken off = broken, or destroyed. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:11

"When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor."This is once more a picture of the judgment of mankind at the last day. It is incorrect to limit this to racial Israel, because racial Israel is not to be destroyed in the total sense until the final reckoning and destruction of all of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 27:9-11

Isaiah 27:9-11. By this therefore, &c.— By this, &c.—And this shall be all the fruit of removing his sin, that he make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones beaten asunder, &c. Isaiah 27:10 because the defenced city [Babylon] shall be desolate; a mansion broken in pieces and left, &c. Nothing can more commodiously answer to a flourishing state of the church, than the purity of the doctrine and worship of that church; whereby, being freed from superstition, idolatry, and the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 27:11

11. boughs . . . broken off—so the Jews are called (Romans 11:17; Romans 11:19; Romans 11:20). 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 (Deuteronomy 32:28; Deuteronomy 32:29; Jeremiah 5:21; Hosea 4:6). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 27:2-11

The future blessing and former discipline of Israel 27:2-11 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 27:10-11

At that time the city of the world (Isaiah 24:10; Isaiah 24:12; Isaiah 25:2), notable for its fortifications, will lie overthrown and isolated. Some premillennialists regard this as a reference to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. [Note: See J. Martin, p. 1076.] "Ruins testify to a commercial and militaristic civilization that has now become quietly pastoral." [Note: Watts, p. 350.] The prophet pictured the deserted condition of that city: calves grazing there and stripping the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 27:1-13

1. The powers hostile to God’s people are here symbolically represented as monsters. Leviathan the piercing (RV ’swift’) serpent perhaps stands for Assyria, watered by the rapid Tigris, and ’leviathan the crooked serpent’ (RV) for Babylon, whose river was the winding Euphrates. The dragon] crocodile, i.e. Egypt, as in Isaiah 51:9.2. Sing ye, etc.] RV ’a vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.’ The vineyard is God’s people (Isaiah 5); the song begins at Isaiah 27:3. 4. Who would, etc.] RV ’would that... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 27:11

(11) When the boughs thereof are withered . . .—The picture of the wasted city receives another touch. Shrubs cover its open spaces (perhaps the prophet thinks of the gardens and parks within the walls of a city like Babylon), and women come, without fear of trespassing, to gather them for firewood.For it is a people of no understanding.—The words are generic enough, and may be applied, like similar words in Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7; Deuteronomy 32:28, to Israel as apostate, or to the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 27:1-13

The Day of the East Wind Isaiah 27:8 I take our text as a poet's thought. Translated, then, I read these meanings in it: Firstly, Our trials are timed. Secondly, Our sufferings are measured. Thirdly, Our lives are compensated. I. Our Trials are Timed. 'He stayeth His rough wind in the day of the east wind.' It is something to know the east wind has its day. To everything under heaven, even the blighting scourge out of the east, there is a time. In its larger aspects we are all agreed on that... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 27:1-13

CHAPTER XXIXGOD’S POORDATE UNCERTAINIsaiah 25:1-12; Isaiah 26:1-21; Isaiah 27:1-13WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and that the disaster which lowers there is upon too world-wide a scale to be forced within the conditions of any single period in the fortunes of Israel. In chapters 25-27, which may naturally be held to be a continuation of chapter 24, the historical allusions are more numerous. Indeed, it might be... read more

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