Isaiah 27:5
Or—he takes hold on My strength, || [That] he makes peace with Me, || [And] he makes peace with Me.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Fury is not in Me; Who gives Me a brier—a thorn in battle? I step into it, || I burn it at once.
Cross References
Joshua 9:24And they answer Joshua and say, “Because it was certainly declared to your servants that your God YHWH commanded His servant Moses to give all the land to you, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; and we fear greatly for ourselves because of you, and we do this thing;
Job 22:21Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace, || Thereby your increase [is] good.
Isaiah 26:3You keep [him] in peace [whose] imagination [is] stayed—peace! For he is confident in You.
Isaiah 56:2O the blessedness of a man who does this, || And of a son of man who keeps hold on it, || Keeping the Sabbath from defiling it, || And keeping his hand from doing any evil.
Isaiah 64:7And there is none calling on Your Name, || Stirring himself up to lay hold on You, || For You have hid Your face from us, || And You melt us away by our iniquities.
Hosea 2:18And I have made a covenant for them in that day, || With the beast of the field, || And with the bird of the heavens, || And the creeping thing of the ground, || And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, || And have caused them to lie down confidently.
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 →