Isaiah 27:4

New English Translation

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,

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:6

But evil people are like thorns – all of them are tossed away, for they cannot be held in the hand.

2 Samuel 23:7

The one who touches them must use an iron instrument or the wooden shaft of a spear. They are completely burned up right where they lie!”

Psalm 103:9

He does not always accuse, and does not stay angry.

Psalm 85:3

You withdrew all your fury; you turned back from your raging anger.

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.

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 33:12

The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.

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.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.

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.’”

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.

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 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,