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 Living Translation (NLT)My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up—

Context of Isaiah 27:4

2In that day sing to her, “A vineyard of red wine! 3I, the Lord, keep it, I water it every moment; Lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day. 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. 5Or let him take hold of My strength, That he may make peace with Me; And he shall make peace with Me.” 6Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, And fill the face of the world with fruit.

Isaiah 27:4 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Furyחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
• not in me: who would setנָתַןnâthan · to give: if only!H5414
• the briersשָׁמִירshâmîyr · thornH8068
• thornsשַׁ֫יִתshayith · thornbushH7898
• against me in battleמִלְחָמָהmilchâmâh · battleH4421
• I would goפָּשַׂעpâώa‛ · to stepH6585
• through them, I would burnצוּתtsûth · to burnH6702
• them togetherיַ֫חַדyachad · unitednessH3162

Cross-references for Isaiah 27:4

• Isaiah 12:1And in that day you will say: “O Lord, I will praise You; Though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.
• Isaiah 26:20Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past.
• Isaiah 54:6For the Lord has called you Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful wife when you were refused,” Says your God.
• Psalms 85:3You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.
• Psalms 103:9He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.
• Ezekiel 16:63that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,” says the Lord God.’ ”
• Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord has His way In the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
• 2 Peter 2:9then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,
• Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns as the fire; It shall devour the briers and thorns, And kindle in the thickets of the forest; They shall mount up like rising smoke.
• Isaiah 10:17So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and his briers in one day.
• 2 Samuel 23:6But the sons of rebellion shall all be as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands.
• Malachi 4:3You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this,” Says the Lord of hosts.
• Matthew 3:12His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
• Hebrews 6:8but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to 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