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 to her, ‘A vineyard of delight!’ 3I, Adonai, watch over it, I water it every moment. I guard it day and night, so that no one may harm it. It is not that I have wrath. Who would give me thorns and thistles? Into battle I would march against them! I would burn them up altogether! 5Rather let them rely on My strength. Let them make peace with Me— make peace with Me.” 6In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will 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 12:1In that day you will say: “I will give You thanks, Adonai, for though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.
• Isaiah 26:20Go, my people, enter your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide for a little while, until the wrath is past.
• Isaiah 54:6“For Adonai has called you back like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of one’s youth that is rejected,” says your God.
• Psalms 85:3Will You bear away Your people’s iniquity, Will You pardon all their sin? Selah
• Psalms 103:9He will not always accuse, nor will He keep His anger forever.
• Ezekiel 16:63So you will remember, be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace, when I have forgiven you of all that you have done.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
• Nahum 1:3Adonai is slow to anger and great in power, but He will by no means acquit the guilty. Adonai’s way is with a whirlwind or with a storm wind, Clouds are the dust of His feet.
• 2 Peter 2:9Therefore the Lord certainly knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and how to keep the unrighteous being punished until the Day of Judgment—
• Isaiah 9:18By the wrath of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the land burnt up; The people are as fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
• Isaiah 10:17So the light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. He will burn and consume its thorns and briers in one day.
• 2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless, all of them will be thrust aside like thorns, for they cannot be picked up by hand.
• Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He shall burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
• Hebrews 6:8But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed—its end is to be burned over.

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