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Isaiah 27:11
New English Translation
Isaiah 27:11
New English Translation
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.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:11 tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).
- 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.
- Isaiah 27:11 tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”
Isaiah 27:11
New King James Version
Isaiah 27:11
New King James Version
11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For (A)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will (B)not have mercy on them,
And (C)He who formed them will show them no favor.
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