thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

“If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.

know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.

So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

So Gideon said, “Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson.

But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand;

The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.

and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.

I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.

In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.

With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns.

And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.

I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.