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# Connecting Statement:
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This continues to speak about the people of Israel as if they were a vineyard (See: [Isaiah 27:2-3](./01.md)).
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# I am not angry, Oh, that there were briers and thorns! In battle I would march against them
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"I am not angry. If there were briers and thorns I would march against them in battle"
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# I am not angry
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It is understood that Yahweh is not angry with his people any longer. Alternate translation: "I am not angry with my people any longer" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])
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# that there were briers and thorns
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The enemies of the people of Israel are spoken of as if they were briers and thorns growing in the vineyard. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# briers and thorns
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See how you translated this phrase in [Isaiah 5:6](../05/06.md).
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# In battle I would march against them
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Yahweh fighting his enemies is spoken of as if he were a warrior in an army. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# I would march against them; I would burn them all together
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Here Isaiah combines different images to speak of Yahweh's enemies. He speaks of them as if they are briers and thorns but also as soldiers in an army. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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