Isaiah 27:4
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.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
5Or will he feele my strength, that he may make peace with me, and be at one with me?
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6But the wicked shalbe euery one as thornes thrust away, because they can not be taken with handes.
Psalms 85:3Thou hast withdrawen all thine anger, and hast turned backe from the fiercenes of thy wrath.
Isaiah 9:18For wickednesse burneth as a fire: it deuoureth the briers and the thornes and will kindle in the thicke places of the forest: and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.
Isaiah 12:1And thou shalt say in that day, O Lord, I will prayse thee: though thou wast angrie with me, thy wrath is turned away, and thou comfortest me.
Isaiah 54:6For the Lord hath called thee, being as a woman forsaken, and afflicted in spirite, and as a yong wife when thou wast refused, sayth thy God.
Ezekiel 16:63That thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and neuer open thy mouth any more: because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee, for all that thou hast done, saith 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 →