But all the wicked are like thorns raked aside; they can never be picked up by hand.
Isaiah 27:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I am not angry. If only there were thorns and briars for me to battle, I would trample them and burn them to the ground. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wrath is not in Me. Would that the briers and thorns [the wicked internal foe] were lined up against Me in battle! I would stride in against them; I would burn them up together. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible I’m not angry, but if it yields thorns and thistles for me, I will march to battle against it; I will torch it completely. Catholic Public Domain Version Indignation is not mine. Who will be a thorn and a brier to me in battle? I will advance against them. I set them on fire together. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There is no indignation in me. Who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle? Shall I march against it? Shall I set it on fire together? |
But all the wicked are like thorns raked aside; they can never be picked up by hand.
The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear. They will be completely burned up on the spot.
Israel’s Light will become a fire, and its Holy One, a flame. In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
On that day you will say: ‘I will give thanks to you, Lord, although you were angry with me. Your anger has turned away, and you have comforted me.
The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briars and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke.
For I know the plans I have for you’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace. This is the declaration of the Lord God.” ’
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 Armies.
His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and at the end will be burned.
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgement,