'Thorn bushes' in the Bible
And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown [with] briers and thornbushes. And concerning the clouds, I will command {them not to send} rain down upon it.
All of them will come and settlein the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks,in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.
And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines for a thousand silver [pieces] will become briers, and it will be thornbushes.
One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers and thornbushes.
And [as for] all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, [for] fear of briers and thornbushes. And it will become like pastureland [for] cattle and overtrodden land [for] sheep.
And the nations will be burned as if to ashes; like cut thorn bushes, they will be set ablaze.
Instead of thornbushes, pine trees will grow, and instead of briers, myrtles will grow; and they will be a sign for the LORD, and an everlasting name that will not be cut off."