Fury is not in Me, the Lord feels nothing but the most sincere love for His Church; who would set the briers and thorns against Me in battle? literally, "Would that were given Me, that I had before Me, thorns and briers in battle!" the reference being to His warfare against the wicked of the world. I would go through them, I would burn them together, with martial impetuosity the Lord would stride in against them and destroy them.
Verse Isaiah 27:4. _FURY_ IS _NOT IN ME_ - "I have no wall"] For חמה _chemah,_ _anger_, the _Septuagint_ and _Syriac_ read חומה _chomah, wall_. An ancient MS. has חימה _cheimah_. For בה _bah, in her_...
FURY IS NOT IN ME - That is, I am angry with it no more. He had punished his people by removing them to a distant land. But although he had corrected them for their faults, yet he had not laid aside t...
CHAPTER 27 ISRAEL'S ENEMIES OVERTHROWN AND THE GREAT RESTORATION 1. _Assyria, Babylon and Egypt punished (Isaiah 27:1)_ 2. _What Jehovah has done and will do (Isaiah 27:2)_ 3. The vineyard established...
YAHWEH'S CHERISHED VINEYARD. Here another song is inserted. The text and meaning are alike most uncertain, but apparently the general thought is that Israel is Yahweh's pleasant vineyard (_mg.),_ tend...
FURY. Hebrew. _chemah =_ heat, wrath, displeasure. NOT IN ME: i.e. not now. There was in the other song (Isaiah 5:5): but now, "in that day", all wrath will have gone. BRIERS AND THORNS: i.e. the _i...
_Fury is not in me_ Or, WRATH HAVE I NONE. These words naturally go with the first stanza, expressing, as they seem to do, Jehovah's contentment with the condition of His vineyard. _who would set … b...
The song of the vineyard, the counterpart of ch. Isaiah 5:1 ff. This peculiar and perplexing passage has little relation to the context. It seems to fall into two stanzas; the first (Isaiah 27:2 a) ex...
I THE LORD DO KEEP IT— We have in these verses a fine testimony of the divine grace and clemency towards the church, of God's constant care and continued affection to it. This elegant period contains...
D. JOINING OF JUDAH AND GENTILES, CHAPTER 27 1. JOINED BY DIVINE PROTECTION TEXT: Isaiah 27:1-6 1 In that day Jehovah with this hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpe...
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. FURY IS NOT IN ME - i:e., I entertain no longer anger toward my vi...
1. The powers hostile to God's people are here symbolically represented as monsters. LEVIATHAN THE PIERCING (RV 'swift') SERPENT perhaps stands for Assyria, watered by the rapid Tigris, and 'leviathan...
WHO WOULD, etc.] RV 'would that the briers and thorns were against me.' GO THROUGH] RV 'march upon.' God's anger against his vineyard has ceased, and He will now turn against their enemies, figurative...
Unlike in 5:5-6, the *Lord is not angry at the *vineyard. But he will destroy any ‘*thorn-bushes or weeds’, that is, the enemies of his people. Although God will forgive even those enemies, if they si...
These verses return to the story about the *vineyard (see Isaiah 5:1-7)....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 27 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST LEVIATHAN V1 On that day, the *Lord will seize his powerf...
FURY IS NOT IN ME. — Better, _There is no wrath in me. Who will set briars and thorns before me? With war will I go forth against them; I will burn them up together._ The reversal of the sentence is c...
חֵמָ֖ה אֵ֣ין לִ֑י מִֽי ־יִתְּנֵ֜נִי שָׁמִ֥יר...
CHAPTER XXIX GOD'S POOR DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 27:1 WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and th...
GOD'S CARE FOR HIS VINEYARD Isaiah 27:1-13 Throughout these Chapter s we must remember that the doom of Babylon and the restoration of God's people are symbolical of other events, for which the world...
This circle of prophecy ends with a message which describes the process toward ultimate restoration, and announces its certainty. The way to restoration is the way of judgment, and this the prophet fi...
_In me, against the Church; nor shall I become as a thorn or brier in its regard; or march against it, or set it on fire: but it shall always take fast hold of me, and keep an everlasting peace with m...
In the opening of this chapter, the Prophet begins it, if not in the same words, yet at least to the same amount, as the Psalmist doth one of his Psalms, when he saith, I will sing of mercy and judgme...
4._Fury is not in me. _This verse contains excellent consolation; for it expresses the incredible warmth of love which the Lord bears towards his people, though they are of a wicked and rebellious dis...
Finally, Jehovah invites His people to hide themselves a little moment, while He comes out of His place to execute vengeance (chap. 27). The power of Satan in this world and among men shall be destroy...
FURY [IS] NOT IN ME,.... Against his vineyard he takes so much care of, his church and people, whom he has loved with an everlasting love; they are indeed deserving of his wrath, but he has not appoin...
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. Ver. 4. _Fury is not in me._] Whatever you may think of me, becau...
_Fury is not in me_ Namely, against my vineyard or my people; I have been displeased with them, and have chastized them, but I am not implacable toward them, and resolved utterly to destroy them, as t...
GO THROUGH: Or, march against...
1-5 The Lord Jesus with his strong sword, the virtue of his death, and the preaching of his gospel, does and will destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, that old serpent. The wo...
FURY, to wit, against my vineyard, or my people; which is easily understood both from the foregoing and following verses. I have been displeased with them, and have chastised them; but I am not implac...
Isaiah 27:4 Fury H2534 set H5414 (H8799) briers H8068 thorns H7898 battle H4421 go H6585 (H8799) burn...
GOD'S FIERCE PROTECTION OF HIS PEOPLE SEEN AS A VINEYARD (ISAIAH 27:2). In contrast to that mighty Serpent are the afflicted people of God, and with such an Enemy they certainly need special protectio...
Isaiah 27:1. _In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, That is to say, he will punish those who are like leviathan; the proudest, the...
CONTENTS: Punishment of the proud enemy of God's people. Israel restored and fruitful. CHARACTERS: God, serpent, dragon. CONCLUSION: When the Lord comes to punish the inhabitants of the earth, He wil...
Isaiah 27:1. _In that day the Lord shall punish leviathan._ It would seem that the Assyrian and Chaldean empire are here intended. See on Job 41:1; Amos 9:13. The desolations mentioned in the tenth ve...
_Fury is not in Me._ --Of all the senses put upon this difficult verse there are only two which can be looked upon as natural or probable. The first may be paraphrased as follows:--It is not because...
A SOLEMN DISCLAIMER Isaiah 27:4. _Fury is not in me_, &c. The figurative language in Isaiah 27:1 sets forth some powerful and terrible enemies of Israel—cruel, crafty, and bloodthirsty oppressors. Bu...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 27:1 THE TRIPLE JUDGMENT ON THE POWERS OF DARKNESS. The crowning judgment of all is now briefly described. "In that day"—the day of God's vengeance—when all his other enemies have b...
Chapter 27: In that day (Isaiah 27:1) Now what day? In the day in which God is bringing the Great Tribulation upon the earth. In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall pun...
2 Peter 2:9; 2 Samuel 23:6; Ezekiel 16:63; Hebrews 6:8; Isaiah 10:17;...