10 Yet the [a]defensed city shall be desolate, and the habitation shall be forsaken, and left like a wilderness. There shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie and consume the branches thereof.

11 When the boughs of it are dry, they shall be broken: the [b]women come and set them on fire: for it is a people of none understanding: therefore he that made them shall not have compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall have no mercy on them.

12 And in that day shall the Lord thresh from the channel of the [c]river unto the river of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered, one by one, O children of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:10 Notwithstanding his favor that he will show them after, yet Jerusalem shall be destroyed, and grass for cattle shall grow in it.
  2. Isaiah 27:11 God shall not have need of mighty enemies: for the very women shall do it to their great shame.
  3. Isaiah 27:12 He shall destroy all from Euphrates to the Nile: for some fled toward Egypt, thinking to have escaped.

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