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.

Majority Standard Bible

In The 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.

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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Cross References

2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

Psalms 85:3You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Isaiah 12:1In 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 54:6For 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.

Ezekiel 16:63so 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.”

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 →

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