'Thorns' in the Bible

Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Then Gideon said, Because of this, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will have you stretched on a bed of thorns of the waste land and on sharp stems, and have you crushed as grain is crushed on a grain-floor.

Then he took the responsible men of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.

But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:

They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.

And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.

And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.

And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.

My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.

And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.

The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.

And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.

And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit.

And others are those planted among the thorns; these are they who have given ear to the word,

And they put a purple robe on him, and twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;

For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth.

And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit.

And the men of the army made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him.

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

But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.