10 occurrences

'Brier' in the Bible

And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.

Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land

With arrows and with bow he cometh thither, Because all the land is brier and thorn.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses Of

And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'

Verse ConceptsHillsTilling The SoilFear, Of NaturalCultivation

For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!

Verse ConceptsForestsBriersDebaucheryThornsFruits Of SinFire Of Evil

And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day.

Verse ConceptsBriersLight, SpiritualThornsShort Time For Action

Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

Verse ConceptsBriersThornsWeedsBurning Plants

Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,

Instead of the thorn come up doth fir, Instead of the brier come up doth myrtle, And it hath been to Jehovah for a name, For a sign age-during -- it is not cut off!

Verse ConceptsBriersDivine ManifestationsPlantsFir TreesWeedsWicked Described AsEternal DeliveranceMyrtleSigns Attending Christ

And there is no more to the house of Israel A pricking brier, and paining thorn, Of all round about them -- despising them, And they have known that I am the Lord Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsBriersThorns

Their best one is as a brier, The upright one -- than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen -- Thy visitation -- hath come. Now is their perplexity.

Verse ConceptsThornsWeedsVisitationThe Timing Of His Coming

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