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11 When its branches get brittle,[a] they break;
women come and use them for kindling.[b]
For these people lack understanding,[c]
therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;
the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:11 tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).
  2. Isaiah 27:11 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. Isaiah 27:11 tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”

11 Cuando sus ramas se secaren, serán quebradas, mujeres vendrán a encenderla; porque aquel no es pueblo de entendimiento. Por tanto su Hacedor no tendrá de él misericordia, ni se compadecerá de él el que lo formó.

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11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off(A)
    and women come and make fires(B) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;(C)
    so their Maker has no compassion on them,
    and their Creator(D) shows them no favor.(E)

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