Yesaya 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,

Yesaya 37:36

37:36 The Lord’s messenger ³  went out and killed 185,000 troops ⁴  in the Assyrian camp. When they ⁵  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! 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.

[37:36]  ³ tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[37:36]  ⁴ tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

[37:36]  ⁵ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[37:36]  ⁶ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”