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Isaiah 27:4

Isaiah 27:4 is verse 4 of Isaiah chapter 27, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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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.

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.

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Isaiah 27:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.

3 I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

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

5 Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me.”

6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 12:1

In 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.

Isaiah 26:20

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.

Isaiah 54:6

For 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.

Isaiah 54:7

“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.

Isaiah 54:8

In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

Isaiah 54:9

“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

Isaiah 54:10

Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Psalms 85:3

You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.

Psalms 103:9

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

Ezekiel 16:63

so 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.”

Nahum 1:3

The 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.

Nahum 1:4

He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.

Nahum 1:6

Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

Nahum 1:7

The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.

2 Peter 2:9

if 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 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Isaiah 10:17

And 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.

2 Samuel 23:6

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

Malachi 4:3

Then 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.

Matthew 3:12

His 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.”

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

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