Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day;
4
Should
Then I would step on them,
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 10:17
The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Hebrews 6:8
But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
2 Samuel 23:6
But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand;
Psalm 85:3
You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.
Psalm 103:9
He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 12:1
You will say in that day: "I will give thanks to you, O LORD, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me.
Isaiah 26:20-21
Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.
Isaiah 54:6-10
For the LORD has called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.
Ezekiel 16:63
that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD."
Nahum 1:3-7
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Malachi 4:3
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts.
2 Peter 2:9
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,