Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 27:11

11 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 : therefore he that made them , will not have mercy on them; and he that formed them, will shew them no favour.

When they shall begin to wither, as they will when they are thus gnawed and cropped by Cattel.

That there may be no hopes nor possibility of their Recovery.

He mentions women, either because it is their usual Work in the Country to make Fires, and to gather Fewel for them; or to signifie, that the Men should be generally destroyed.

They do not understand either me or themselves, either my Word or Works; they know not the things which concern their own Peace and Happiness, but like bruit Beasts, made to be destroyed, they blindly and wilfully go on in those Courses which will bring them to certain ruine.

Both as they are Creatures, and as they are his People; for this also is expressed by making or forming, as Psal. 100. 3. & 102. 18. & 149. 2. Thus he overthroweth their false and presumptuous Conceits, that God would never destroy the Work of his own Hands, nor the Seed of Abraham his Friend for ever, and plainly declareth the contrary.

Marginal references: Deut. 32. 28. Chap. 1. 3.