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Isaiah 27:4

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

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
חֵמָ֖הche.MahrageH2534 →
אֵ֣ין'einnotH369 →
לִ֑יLi[belongs] to me
מִֽי־mi-who?H4310 →
יִתְּנֵ֜נִיyi.te.Ne.niwill he give meH5414 →
שָׁמִ֥ירsha.Mirthorn[s]H8068 →
שַׁ֙יִת֙sha.yitbush[es]H7898 →
בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔הba.mil.cha.Mahin <the> battleH4421 →
אֶפְשְׂעָ֥ה'ef.se.'AhI will marchH6585 →
בָ֖הּvahagainst it
אֲצִיתֶ֥נָּה'a.tzi.Te.nahI will burn itH6702 →
יָּֽחַד׃Ya.chadaltogetherH3162 →

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Hebrews 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.Isaiah 10:17And 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.Matthew 3:12His 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.”Deuteronomy 9:3But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.Psalms 85:3You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.Isaiah 33:12The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.Proverbs 11:21Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.Psalms 118:12They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.Isaiah 12:1In 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.Psalms 103:9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.Malachi 4:3Then 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.Isaiah 54:6–10For 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.Ezekiel 16:63so 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.”Isaiah 26:20–21Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.2 Peter 2:9if 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.Nahum 1:3–7The 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.

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