Anger [a]is not in me: who would set the briers and the thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Or will he [b]feel my strength, that he may make peace with me, and be at one with me?

[c]Hereafter Jacob shall take root: Israel shall flourish and grow: and the world shall be filled with fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:4 Therefore he will destroy the kingdom of Satan, because he loveth his Church for his own mercy’s sake, and cannot be angry with it, but wisheth that he may pour his anger upon the wicked infidels, whom he meaneth by briers and thorns.
  2. Isaiah 27:5 He marveleth that Israel will not come by gentleness, except God make them to feel his rods, and so bring them unto him.
  3. Isaiah 27:6 Though I afflict and diminish my people for a time, yet shall the root spring again and bring forth in great abundance.

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