Isaiah 27:4
Fury 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.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
3I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, for they cannot be taken with the hand:
Psalms 85:3Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns: yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.
Isaiah 12:1And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me.
Isaiah 54:6For the LORD hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God.
Ezekiel 16:63that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame; when I have forgiven thee 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 →