It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

“‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.

then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.

Then Gideon replied, “Just for that, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.”

He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers.

But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand.

Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie.”

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns— whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them down.

The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.

Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools. This too is meaningless.

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Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the young women.

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”

In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.

Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.

Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.

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.

and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers— yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry.

Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls.

This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns.

They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”