Isaiah 27:4

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Isa 10:17 : 17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
  • 2 Sam 23:6 : 6 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can't be taken with the hand,
  • Ps 85:3 : 3 You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
  • Ps 103:9 : 9 He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.
  • Isa 9:18 : 18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
  • Isa 12:1 : 1 In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
  • Isa 26:20-21 : 20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past. 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
  • Isa 54:6-9 : 6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God. 7 "For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. 8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you," says Yahweh your Redeemer. 9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. 10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed," says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Nah 1:3-7 : 3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes. 5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him. 7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
  • Mal 4:3 : 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

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  • 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me."

  • 14 I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.

  • 18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

  • 31 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

  • 12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

  • 1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

  • 5 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.

  • 20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

  • 3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

  • 9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • 15 I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn't listen."

  • 4 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

  • 25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart."

  • Isa 63:5-6
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    5 I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.

    6 I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."

  • Isa 37:28-29
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    28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

    29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

  • 6 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

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    4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

  • 31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

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    12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.

    13 As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you.

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    1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

  • 10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

  • 7 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.

  • 11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

  • 41 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

  • 12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

  • 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;

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    27 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

    28 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came."

  • 25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."

  • 21 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

  • 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

  • 23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

  • 7 Gideon said, "Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."

  • 7 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

  • 24 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

  • 16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

  • 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

  • 14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.

  • 37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

  • 29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

  • 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in wrath.

  • 4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

  • 12 You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.

  • 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.

  • 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.