Parallel Verses
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 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?
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, protect it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day, so no one can harm it. 4 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, 5 unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 10:17
The light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One will become a flame; it will burn and consume the Assyrian king's briers and his thorns in one day.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire."
Hebrews 6:8
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
2 Samuel 23:6
But evil people are like thorns -- all of them are tossed away, for they cannot be held in the hand.
Psalm 85:3
You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging anger.
Psalm 103:9
He does not always accuse, and does not stay angry.
Isaiah 9:18
For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.
Isaiah 12:1
At that time you will say: "I praise you, O Lord, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me.
Isaiah 26:20-21
Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms! Close your doors behind you! Hide for a little while, until his angry judgment is over!
Isaiah 54:6-10
"Indeed, the Lord will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected," says your God.
Ezekiel 16:63
Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent when I make atonement for all you have done, declares the sovereign Lord.'"
Nahum 1:3-7
He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet.
Malachi 4:3
You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the Lord who rules over all.
2 Peter 2:9
-- if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,