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

2On that day, “A vineyard of beauty, sing of it! 3I, the Lord, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day. I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely. 5Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me.” 6In the days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, And they will 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 haveאַ֫יִן'ayin · nothingH369
• wrathחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
• someoneמִיmîy · who?H4310
• giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: if only!H5414
• briarsשָׁמִירshâmîyr · thornH8068
• thornsשַׁ֫יִתshayith · thornbushH7898
• in battleמִלְחָמָהmilchâmâh · battleH4421
• I would stepפָּשַׂעpâώa‛ · to stepH6585
• I would burnיָצַתyâtsath · to kindleH3341
• completelyיַ֫חַדyachad · unitednessH3162

Cross-references for Isaiah 27:4

• Isaiah 12:1Then you will say on that day, “I will give thanks to You, Lord; For although You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, And You comfort me.
• Isaiah 26:20Come, my people, enter your rooms And close your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until indignation runs its course.
• Isaiah 54:6For the Lord has called you, Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” Says your God.
• Psalms 85:3You withdrew all Your fury; You turned away from Your burning anger.
• Psalms 103:9He will not always contend with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.
• Ezekiel 16:63so that you may remember and be ashamed, and not open your mouth again because of your disgrace, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” the Lord God declares.
• Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. In the gale and the storm is His way, And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
• 2 Peter 2:9then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
• Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It also sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.
• Isaiah 10:17And the Light of Israel will become a fire and Israel’s Holy One a flame, And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.
• 2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless, every one of them, are like scattered thorns, Because they cannot be taken in hand;
• Malachi 4:3And you will crush the wicked underfoot, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am preparing,” says the Lord of armies.
• Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
• Hebrews 6:8but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being 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