Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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, Yahweh, [am] her keeper; I water it {again and again}. Lest one afflict [harm] on it, I guard it night and day; 4 {I have no wrath}. Whatever gives me thorns [and] briers, I will step forth against in battle. I will set it on fire altogether. 5 Or let it grasp at my protection; let it make peace with me; peace let it make with me."
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 10:17
And the light of Israel will become like a fire, and his holy one like a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing shovel [is] in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Hebrews 6:8
But [if it] produces thorns and thistles, [it is] worthless and near to a curse, whose end [is] for burning.
2 Samuel 23:6
But evil persons [are] like thorns cast aside; all of them, because they cannot be picked up in the hand.
Psalm 85:3
You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your burning anger.
Psalm 103:9
He does not dispute continually, nor keep [his anger] forever.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burned like fire; it consumed brier and thorn. And it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward [in] a column of smoke.
Isaiah 12:1
And you will say on that day, "I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me.
Isaiah 26:20-21
Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide for {a very little} while, until [the] wrath has passed over.
Isaiah 54:6-10
For Yahweh has called you like a wife forsaken and hurt of spirit, like [the] wife of childhood when she is rejected, says your God.
Ezekiel 16:63
in order that you will remember, and you will be ashamed, and {you will not open your mouth again} {because of} your disgrace when I forgive you for all that you have done!'" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
Nahum 1:3-7
Yahweh is slow to anger but great [in] power; he will certainly not allow [the guilty] to go unpunished. {He marches} in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds [are the] dust of his feet.
Malachi 4:3
You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I [am] going to act," says Yahweh of hosts.
2 Peter 2:9
[then] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at the day of judgment,