Isaiah 27:4
What does Isaiah 27:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 27:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Wrath 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Fury 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Wrath 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier--a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars [and] thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 12:1
And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me.
- Nahum 1:3
Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Isaiah 10:17
And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
- Psalms 85:3
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
- Isaiah 54:6
For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God.
- 2 Samuel 23:6
But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand;
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