Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The boughs

Bible References

The boughs

Matthew 3:10
the ax is already laid to the root of the trees: every tree then which does not produce good fruit, will be hewn down, and cast into the fire.
John 15:6
if a man abide not in me, he is cast away as withered branches that are gather'd up to be thrown into the fire, where they are burned.

For it is

Matthew 13:15
for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."
Romans 1:28
As they did not seek the favour of God, by worshipping him, God gave them over to a depraved sense, to act unworthy of human nature;