Isaiah 27:4

27:4 I am not angry.

I wish I could confront some thorns and briers!

Then I would march against them ¹  for battle;

I would set them ²  all on fire,

Isaiah 59:18

59:18 He repays them for what they have done,

dispensing angry judgment to his adversaries

and punishing his enemies. ³ 

He repays the coastlands. ⁴ 

Isaiah 63:5

63:5 I looked, but there was no one to help;

I was shocked because there was no one offering support. ⁵ 

So my right arm accomplished deliverance;

my raging anger drove me on. ⁶ 

[27:4]  ¹ tn Heb “it.” The feminine singular suffix apparently refers back to the expression “thorns and briers,” understood in a collective sense. For other examples of a cohortative expressing resolve after a hypothetical statement introduced by נָתַן with מִי (miwith natan), see Judg 9:29; Jer 9:1-2; Ps 55:6.

[27:4]  ² tn Heb “it.” The feminine singular suffix apparently refers back to the expression “thorns and briers,” understood in a collective sense.

[59:18]  ³ tn Heb “in accordance with deeds, so he repays, anger to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies.”

[59:18]  ⁴ tn Or “islands” (KJV, NIV).

[63:5]  ⁵ sn See Isa 59:16 for similar language.

[63:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and my anger, it supported me”; NIV “my own wrath sustained me.”