'Thorns' in the Bible

It will produce thorns and thistles for you,and you will eat the plants of the field.

But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

Gideon replied, “Very well, when the Lord has handed Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will trample your flesh on thorns and briers from the wilderness!”

So he took the elders of the city, and he took some thorns and briers from the wilderness, and he disciplined the men of Succoth with them.

But all the wicked are like thorns raked aside;they can never be picked up by hand.

The hungry consume his harvest,even taking it out of the thorns.The thirsty pant for his children’s wealth.

then let thorns grow instead of wheatand stinkweed instead of barley.The words of Job are concluded.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns—whether green or burning—He will sweep them away.

They surrounded me like bees;they were extinguished like a fire among thorns;in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

There are thorns and snares on the path of the crooked;the one who guards himself stays far from them.

A proverb in the mouth of a foolis like a stick with thorns,brandished by the hand of a drunkard.

for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot,so is the laughter of the fool.This too is futile.

M Like a lily among thorns,so is my darling among the young women.

I will make it a wasteland.It will not be pruned or weeded;thorns and briers will grow up.I will also give orders to the cloudsthat rain should not fall on it.

And on that dayevery place where there were 1,000 vines,worth 1,000 pieces of silver,will become thorns and briers.

A man will go there with bow and arrowsbecause the whole land will be thorns and briers.

You will not go to all the hillsthat were once tilled with a hoe,for fear of the thorns and briers.Those hills will be places for oxen to grazeand for sheep to trample.

For wickedness burns like a firethat consumes thorns and briersand kindles the forest thicketsso that they go up in a column of smoke.

Israel’s Light will become a fire,and its Holy One, a flame.In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

I am not angry,but if it produces thorns and briers for Me,I will fight against it, trample it,and burn it to the ground.

for the ground of my peoplegrowing thorns and briers,indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.

The peoples will be burned to ashes,like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.She will become a dwelling for jackals,an abode for ostriches.

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:Break up the unplowed ground;do not sow among the thorns.

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.Be put to shame by your harvestsbecause of the Lord’s burning anger.

“But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words, though briers and thorns are beside you and you live among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words or be discouraged by the look on their faces, for they are a rebellious house.

“The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by prickly briers or painful thorns from all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

Therefore, this is what I will do:I will block her way with thorns;I will enclose her with a wall,so that she cannot find her paths.

For even if they flee from devastation,Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;thorns will invade their tents.

The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,will be destroyed;thorns and thistles will grow over their altars.They will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

The best of them is like a brier;the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.The day of your watchmen,the day of your punishment, is coming;at this time their panic is here.

For they will be consumedlike entangled thorns,like the drink of a drunkardand like straw that is fully dry.

Others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.

Now the one sown among the thorns—this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the seduction of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and placed a reed in His right hand. And they knelt down before Him and mocked Him: “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it didn’t produce a crop.

Others are sown among thorns; these are the ones who hear the word,

They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and put it on Him.

Other seed fell among thorns; the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.

As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life, and produce no mature fruit.

The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and threw a purple robe around Him.

Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.