'Thorns' in the Bible

And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.

And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.

And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.

My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.