'Briars' in the Bible
and I will make it a waste it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
"At that time, every place where once there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briars and thorns will grow.
with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.
As for all the hills that used to be cultivated with a hoe, you won't go there, because you'll fear iron briars and thorns. Nevertheless, those hills will be reserved as a pasture where cattle will feed and where sheep will graze."
For wickedness burneth as a fire: it devoureth briars and thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go rolling up like a pillar of smoke.
and the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day,
Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars and thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.