When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor. Cross References Deuteronomy 32:18 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth. Deuteronomy 32:28 Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them. Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand." Isaiah 5:13 Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst. Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised. Isaiah 18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches. Isaiah 43:1 Now this is what the LORD says--He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine! Isaiah 43:7 everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made." Isaiah 44:2 This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: "Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. Isaiah 44:21 Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you, and you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you. Jeremiah 5:4 Then I said, "They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. Jeremiah 8:7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD. Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed. Jeremiah 13:14 I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.'" Jeremiah 16:5 Indeed, this is what the LORD says: "Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion," declares the LORD. Jeremiah 25:37 The peaceful meadows have been silenced because of the LORD's burning anger. Ezekiel 15:4 No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything? Ezekiel 19:12 But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them. Treasury of Scripture 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 show them no favor. the boughs Psalm 80:15,16 Ezekiel 15:2-8 Ezekiel 20:47 for it is Isaiah 1:3 Isaiah 44:18-20 Deuteronomy 4:6 therefore Isaiah 43:1,7 Isaiah 44:20,21,24 Genesis 6:6,7 |