Isaiah 27:4

In 11 translations

BSB

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

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.go…: or, march against

WEB

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

ASV

Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.

LSV

Fury is not in Me; Who gives Me a brier—a thorn in battle? I step into it, || I burn it at once.

YLT

Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier — a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

DBY

Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars [and] thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.

DRC

There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall march against it, shall I set it on fire together?

GNV

Anger is not in mee: who would set the briers and the thornes against me in battel? I would go through them, I would burne them together.

JPS

Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame! I would with one step burn it altogether.

LXXE

There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

חֵמָ֖ה אֵ֣ין לִ֑י מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֜נִי שָׁמִ֥יר שַׁ֨יִת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה אֶפְשְׂעָ֥ה בָ֖הּ אֲצִיתֶ֥נָּה יָּֽחַד׃

LXX-Br

Οὐκ ἔστιν, ἣ οὐκ ἐπελάβετο αὐτῆς· τίς με θήσει φυλάσσειν καλάμην ἐν ἀγρῷ; διὰ τὴν πολεμίαν ταύτην ἠθέτηκα αὐτήν· τοίνυν διατοῦτο ἐποίησε Κύριος πάντα, ὅσα συνέταξε· κατακέκαυμαι

Who and where

People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• Hebrews 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
• 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.”
• Psalms 85:3You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.
• 2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
• 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 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.
• Nahum 1:3–7The 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. He rebukes the sea and dries it up;…
• Isaiah 26:20–21Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed. For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for…
• 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.
• Isaiah 54:6–10For 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. “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.…
• 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.”
• Psalms 103:9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
• 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.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).