Isaiah 27:4
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חֵמָה
chêmâh
heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
מִלְחָמָה
milchâmâh
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
עָבַר
ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...
שָׂרַף
sâraph
to be (causatively, set) on fire
יַחַד
yachad
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
Key Terms in This Verse
מִלְחָמָה milchâmâh
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
Study H4421 →עָבַר ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
Study H5674 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →Cross References
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
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