'Briers and Thorns' in the Bible

I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."

"People will come there armed with bows and arrows, because the entire land will be nothing but briers and thorns.

"For wickedness has burned like a blaze that consumes briers and thorns; it sets thickets of the forest on fire, and skyward they swirl in a column of smoke.

I am not angry. If only the vineyard could give me briers and thorns to battle, I would march against it, and I would burn it all up.