Isaiah 27:4

Isaiah chapter 27 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Wrath 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 · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Wrath 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.

Context

v.3I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

v.4This passage

v.5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me.

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;