Isaiah 27:4

New International Version

I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:6

But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand.

2 Samuel 23:7

Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie.”

Psalm 103:9

He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever;

Psalm 85:3

You set aside all your wrath and turned from your fierce anger.

Isaiah 10:17

The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.

Isaiah 12:1

In that day you will say: “I will praise you, Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

Isaiah 33:12

The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.”

Isaiah 9:18

Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Ezekiel 16:63

Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ ”

Malachi 4:3

Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.

2 Peter 2:9

if 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.