Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThere is no wrath left in Me. If only someone would set thorns and briers against Me in battle — I would march straight through them and burn them together in an instant.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GI have no fury. Oh, who would set brier and thorn against Me in battle? I would stride through them; I would set them ablaze—all at once!
KJV
King James VersionFury 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.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleI am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
Footnotes
*Shamir vashayit* ('brier and thorn') is a recurring paired image throughout Isaiah (5:6; 7:23–25; 9:18; 10:17), consistently associated with judgment and desolation — the mark of a land abandoned. Here the pairing is inverted: YHWH declares His fury has passed. The rhetorical question ('who would set briers against Me?') carries an almost playful confidence: He could incinerate any remaining enemy effortlessly. The real message is that His anger toward His own vineyard is spent; the threat He poses is now directed outward, toward her enemies. FOG preserves the Hebrew word order *shamir vashayit* ('brier and thorn'); FOG Message reverses it to 'thorns and briers' to vary the texture and echo more familiar English idiom.
