Isaiah 27:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חֵמָ֖ה אֵ֣ין לִ֑י מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֜נִי שָׁמִ֥יר שַׁ֙יִת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה אֶפְשְׂעָ֥ה בָ֖הּ אֲצִיתֶ֥נָּה יָּֽחַד׃

Transliteration

ḥēmâ ʾêyn to-lî mî-yittĕnēnî šāmîr šayit in-the-milḥāmâ ʾefśĕʿâ in-bāh ʾăṣîtennâ yāḥad

Grammar Details

*ḥēmâ*: feminine singular noun - wrath/anger/rage
*ʾêyn*: particle of negation - is not/there is no
*lî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - to me
*mî*: interrogative pronoun - who
*yittĕnēnî*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - will give me
*šāmîr*: masculine singular noun - brier/thorn
*šayit*: masculine singular noun - thorns/thistles
*milḥāmâ*: feminine singular noun - battle/war
*ʾefśĕʿâ*: Qal imperfect, 1st person singular cohortative - I would march/step/stride
*bāh*: preposition with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - against her
*ʾăṣîtennâ*: Hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - I would burn her
*yāḥad*: adverb - together/at once

Word Meanings

*ḥēmâ*: wrath/anger/rage/fury
*šāmîr*: brier/thorn/hard stone
*šayit*: thorns/thistles/briars
*ʾefśĕʿâ*: would march/would step/would stride against
*ʾăṣîtennâ*: would burn/would kindle/would set on fire

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Referenced Verses

Isa 10:17 : 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Matt 3:12 : 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Heb 6:8 : 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
2 Sam 23:6 : 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
Ps 85:3 : 3 Thou hast taken away{H8804)} all thy wrath: thou hast turned{H8689)} thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Ps 103:9 : 9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Isa 9:18 : 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Isa 12:1 : 1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
Isa 26:20-21 : 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Isa 54:6-9 : 6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. 9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Ezek 16:63 : 63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
Nah 1:3-7 : 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. 7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Mal 4:3 : 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

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