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

2“In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard. 3I, the Lord, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it. My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up— 5unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.” 6The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth 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 12:1In that day you will sing: “I will praise you, O Lord! You were angry with me, but not anymore. Now you comfort me.
• Isaiah 26:20Go home, my people, and lock your doors! Hide yourselves for a little while until the Lord’s anger has passed.
• Isaiah 54:6For the Lord has called you back from your grief— as though you were a young wife abandoned by her husband,” says your God.
• Psalms 85:3You held back your fury. You kept back your blazing anger.
• Psalms 103:9He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever.
• Ezekiel 16:63You will remember your sins and cover your mouth in silent shame when I forgive you of all that you have done. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”
• Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to get angry, but his power is great, and he never lets the guilty go unpunished. He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.
• 2 Peter 2:9So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.
• Isaiah 9:18This wickedness is like a brushfire. It burns not only briers and thorns but also sets the forests ablaze. Its burning sends up clouds of smoke.
• Isaiah 10:17The Lord, the Light of Israel, will be a fire; the Holy One will be a flame. He will devour the thorns and briers with fire, burning up the enemy in a single night.
• 2 Samuel 23:6But the godless are like thorns to be thrown away, for they tear the hand that touches them.
• Malachi 4:3On the day when I act, you will tread upon the wicked as if they were dust under your feet,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
• Matthew 3:12He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.”
• Hebrews 6:8But if a field bears thorns and thistles, it is useless. The farmer will soon condemn that field and burn it.

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