4Fury 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The prophet is here singing of judgment and mercy, I. Of judgment upon the enemies of God’s church (Isa. 27:1), tribulation to those that trouble it , 2 Thess. 1:6. When the Lord comes out of his place, to punish the inhabitants of the earth (Isa. 26:21), he will be sure to punish leviathan , the dragon that is in the sea , every proud oppressing tyrant, that is the terror of the mighty, and, like…
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