I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.
NIV
Wrath is not in Me. Would that the briers and thorns [the wicked internal foe] were lined up against Me in battle! I would stride in against them; I would burn them up together.
AMP
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
KJV
And are you now turning away from the LORD? "If you rebel against the LORD today, tomorrow he will be angry with the whole community of Israel."
NIV
That you must turn away this day from following the Lord? The result will be, since you rebel today against the Lord, that tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
AMP
But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
KJV
For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.'
NIV
Forty years long was I grieved and disgusted with that generation, and I said, It is a people that do err in their hearts, and they do not approve, acknowledge, or regard My ways.
AMP
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
KJV
All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "We did this because the king is closely related to us. Why are you angry about it? Have we eaten any of the king's provisions? Have we taken anything for ourselves?"
NIV
But all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then be angry about it? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?
AMP
And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift?
KJV