'Thorns' in the Bible

thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

And Gideon said, Therefore when Jehovah hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand;

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

They compassed me about like bees; They are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.

The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.

Thorns and'snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns.

With arrows and with bow shall one come thither, because all the land shall be briers and thorns.

And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:

And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

And they platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

And other fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

And others are they that are sown among the thorns; these are they that have heard the word,

And they clothe him with purple, and platting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

And other fell amidst the thorns; and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple garment;

Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And Pilate'saith unto them, Behold, the man!

but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.