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:
Isaiah 27:11
"When the boughs thereof are withered as they grow upon the
tree, being blasted by winds and frosts and not pruned, they shall be broken off for fuel, and the women shall come and set them on fire. There shall be a total destruction, for the very trees shall be destroyed.' And this is a figure of the deplorable state of the vineyard (v. 2) when it brought forth wild grapes (ch. 5:2); and our Savior seems to refer to this when he says of the branches of the vine which abide not in him that they are cast forth and withered, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned (John 15:6)." MatthewHenry
they shall be broken off:
the women come, and set them on fire:
for it is a people of no understanding:
Isaiah 27:11
"When the boughs thereof are withered as they grow upon the
