Isaiah 27:4

Isaiah 27:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Fury is not in Me. Who would set briers and thorns Against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Context of Isaiah 27:4

2In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard. 3I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it; I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground. 5Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me.” 6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

Isaiah 27:4 word by word

חֵמָ֖ה אֵ֣ין לִ֑י מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֜נִי שָׁמִ֥יר שַׁ֙יִת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה אֶפְשְׂעָ֥ה בָ֖הּ אֲצִיתֶ֥נָּה יָּֽחַד׃Read the interlinear

• I am notאַ֫יִן'ayin · nothingH369
• ·מִיmîy · who?H4310
• angryחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
• If only thornsשַׁ֫יִתshayith · thornbushH7898
• and briersשָׁמִירshâmîyr · thornH8068
• confronted Meנָתַןnâthan · to give: if only!H5414
• I would marchמִלְחָמָהmilchâmâh · battleH4421
• and trample themפָּשַׂעpâώa‛ · to stepH6585
• I would burn themצוּתtsûth · to burnH6702
• to the groundיַ֫חַדyachad · unitednessH3162

Cross-references for Isaiah 27:4

• 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 26:20Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
• 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.
• Psalms 85:3You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.
• Psalms 103:9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
• 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.”
• Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
• 2 Peter 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
• 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 10:17And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
• 2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
• Malachi 4:3Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
• Hebrews 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

Commentaries on Isaiah 27:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Fury is not in me "I have no wall" - For חמה chemah, anger, the Septuagint and Syriac read חומה chomah, wall. An ancient MS. has חימה cheimah . For בה bad, in her, two MSS. read בם bam, in them, plural. The vineyard wishes for a wall and a fence of thorns - human strength and protection, (as the Jews were too apt to apply to their powerful neighbors for assistance, and to trust to the shadow of Egypt): Jehovah replies, that this would not avail her, nor…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Fury is not in me - That is, I am angry with it no more. He had punished his people by removing them to a distant land. But although he had corrected them for their faults, yet he had not laid aside the affection of a Father. Who would set - Hebrew, Who would give me.‘ The Septuagint renders this, Who would place me to keep the stubble in the field?‘ Great perplexity has been felt in regard to the interpretation of this passage. Lowth translates it: O…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-6In the Song of the Fruitful Vineyard, the vineyard represents God’s people (compare Isaiah 5:1–7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Fury is not in me--that is, I entertain no longer anger towards my vine. who would set ... in battle--that is, would that I had the briers, &c. (the wicked foe; Is 9:18; 10:17; 2Sa 23:6), before me! "I would go through," or rather, "against them."Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings