I am not angry. I wish I could confront some thorns and briers! Then I would march against them for battle; I would set them all on fire,

He repays them for what they have done, dispensing angry judgment to his adversaries and punishing his enemies. He repays the coastlands.

So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did notice.