But the worthless, all of them will be thrust aside like thorns, for they cannot be picked up by hand.
Isaiah 27:4 - Tree of Life Version It is not that I have wrath. Who would give me thorns and thistles? Into battle I would march against them! I would burn them up altogether! 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 the worthless, all of them will be thrust aside like thorns, for they cannot be picked up by hand.
But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear. They must be completely burned up with fire on the spot.”
Will You bear away Your people’s iniquity, Will You pardon all their sin? Selah
So the light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. He will burn and consume its thorns and briers in one day.
In that day you will say: “I will give You thanks, Adonai, for though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.
Then peoples will be burned as lime, like thorns cut down, burned in the fire.
By the wrath of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the land burnt up; The people are as fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
For I know the plans that I have in mind for you,” declares Adonai, “plans for shalom and not calamity—to give you a future and a hope.
So you will remember, be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace, when I have forgiven you of all that you have done.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He shall burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed—its end is to be burned over.
Therefore the Lord certainly knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and how to keep the unrighteous being punished until the Day of Judgment—