Isaiah 27:4-5

Fury is not in me Namely, against my vineyard or my people; I have been displeased with them, and have chastized them, but I am not implacable toward them, and resolved utterly to destroy them, as their enemies are. Who would set the briers and thorns against me, &c. Yet if any hypocrite in the church, false professor, or wilful sinner, shall offer to contend with me, he shall feel the effects of my fury. Or, more largely, thus: “Though fury doth not belong to me, and vengeance be called my strange work, (Isaiah 28:21,) yet if the briers and thorns, that is, the wicked and incorrigible, bid defiance to me, they will find I shall soon destroy and consume them like fire.” Or let him take hold of my strength, &c. Rather, let such a one return to me, and make his peace with me, by unfeigned repentance and living faith, and he shall make peace with me For I am always ready to receive returning sinners, and to pardon the truly penitent, who have recourse to me for mercy and salvation.