Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
Should
Then I would step on them,
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
but if it produces thorns and briers
I will fight against it, trample it,
and burn it to the ground.
International Standard Version
I am not angry. If only the vineyard could give me briers and thorns to battle, I would march against it, and I would burn it all up.
A Conservative Version
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.
Amplified
“I have no wrath.
Should anyone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
I would step on them, I would set them all on fire.
Bible in Basic English
My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Wrath not to me: who shall distribute to me the sharp point of the thorn in battle? I will rush upon her; I will set her on fire together.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{I have no wrath}. Whatever gives me thorns [and] briers, I will step forth against in battle. I will set it on fire altogether.
Modern King James verseion
Fury is not in Me; who would set the briers and thorns against Me in battle? I would step through it; I would burn it at once.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I hear no evil will in my mind. Who will compel me that I, greatly forgetting all faithfulness, should burn it up at once with thorns and bushes?
NET Bible
I am not angry. I wish I could confront some thorns and briers! Then I would march against them for battle; I would set them all on fire,
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Fury, have I none, - Oh that there were delivered to me briars and thorns, in battle! I would march in among them I would set fire to them one and all.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.
Interlinear
Chemah
Nathan
Milchamah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 27:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Rescued
3 I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 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. 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea , let him make peace with me.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 10:17
And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
Matthew 3:12
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Hebrews 6:8
but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.
2 Samuel 23:6
But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand;
Psalm 85:3
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Psalm 103:9
He will not always chide; Neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 12:1
And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me.
Isaiah 26:20-21
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Isaiah 54:6-10
For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God.
Ezekiel 16:63
that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Nahum 1:3-7
Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty : Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Malachi 4:3
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, saith Jehovah of hosts.
2 Peter 2:9
the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;