'Thorns' in the Bible

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.