Thorns

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.

…know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

“Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”

Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

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

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

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

Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

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

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

…and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.

For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.

The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.

The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand, knelt down before Him, and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.

Others are like the seeds sown among the thorns. They hear the word,

They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and set it on His head.

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.

The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.

The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.

When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.