Isaiah 27:4 “I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march…”

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

World English Bible

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

American Standard Version

Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.

Geneva Bible 1599

Anger is not in mee: who would set the briers and the thornes against me in battel? I would go through them, I would burne them together.

Darby Translation

Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars [and] thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.

Young's Literal Translation

Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier — a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

Bible in Basic English

My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

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Cross references

“Fury”

Psalm 85:3 Isaiah 12:1 Isaiah 54:6–10 Psalm 103:9 Ezekiel 16:63 Nahum 1:3–7

Psalm 85:3 · BSB

You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

Isaiah 12:1 · BSB

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

Isaiah 54:6–10 · BSB

For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.

Psalm 103:9 · BSB

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

Ezekiel 16:63 · BSB

so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”

Nahum 1:3–7 · BSB

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

“who would”

Isaiah 10:17 Hebrews 6:8 Matthew 3:12 2 Samuel 23:6 Malachi 4:3 Isaiah 9:18

Isaiah 10:17 · BSB

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Hebrews 6:8 · BSB

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

Matthew 3:12 · BSB

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

2 Samuel 23:6 · BSB

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

Malachi 4:3 · BSB

Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 9:18 · BSB

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

5Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me.”

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