'Thorns' in the Bible

and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

if fire break out, And seize the thorns, And the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall fully make it good.

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

know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.

And Gideon said, "Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmun'na into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."

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

But the sons of Belial are all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands;

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away.

They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.

The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.

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

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

and I will make it a waste it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will 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 silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:

with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.

And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle.

For wickedness burneth as a fire: it devoureth briars and thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go rolling up like a pillar of smoke.

and the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day,

Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars and thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.

And the peoples shall be as burnings of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses; and it shall be a dwelling-place of wild dogs, a court for ostriches.

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

They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and do not profit. Be ye therefore ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, and be not afraid of their words; for briars and thorns are with thee, and thou dwellest among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, and be not dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious house.

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

For behold, they are gone away because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Moph shall bury them: their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.

Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

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

and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them;

And he that is sown among the thorns this is he who hears the word, and the anxious care of this life, and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

and having woven a crown out of thorns, they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and, bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

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

And others are they who are sown among the thorns: these are they who have heard the word,

And they clothe him with purple, and bind round on him a crown of thorns which they had plaited.

for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble.

and other fell in the midst of the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with it choked it;

But that that fell where the thorns were, these are they who having heard go away and are choked under cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

And the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns put it on his head, and put a purple robe on him,

but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned.