But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can't be taken with the hand,
Isaiah 27:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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. 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 of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can't be taken with the hand,
But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place.
You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
The light of Yisra'el 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.
In that day you will say, *I will give thanks to you, the LORD; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
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.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of shalom, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
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 GOD.
You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,* says the LORD of Armies.
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.*
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;