Isaiah 27:4
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.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3I LORD am its keeper, I will water it every moment. Lest any hurt it, I will guard it night and day.
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless shall be as thorns to be thrust away, all of them, because they cannot be taken with the hand.
Psalms 85:3Thou have taken away all thy wrath. Thou have turned from the fierceness of thine anger.
Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yea, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 12:1And in that day thou shall say, I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, for though thou were angry with me. Thine anger is turned away and thou comfort me.
Isaiah 54:6For LORD has called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit. Even a wife of youth when she is cast off, says thy God.
Ezekiel 16:63that thou may remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou have done, says lord LORD.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 27:2-7
The Doom of Persecutors; The Privilege of Saints. ( b. c. 718.) 1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. 3 I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through… Read the whole commentary →