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'Briars' in the Bible

Let briars grow instead of wheat,And stinkweed instead of barley.”The words of Job are ended.

Verse ConceptsThistlesThornsLast WordsWeed

“I will lay it waste;It will not be pruned or hoed,But briars and thorns will come up.I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.”

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

And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

Verse ConceptsCoinageVinesWeedsA Thousand Things

People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses Of

As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

Verse ConceptsHillsTilling The SoilFear, Of NaturalCultivation

For wickedness burns like a fire;It consumes briars and thorns;It even sets the thickets of the forest aflameAnd they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Verse ConceptsForestsBriersDebaucheryThornsFruits Of SinFire Of Evil

And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame,And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

Verse ConceptsBriersLight, SpiritualThornsShort Time For Action

“I have no wrath.Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle,Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.

Verse ConceptsBriersThornsWeedsBurning Plants

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up;Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

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