'Thorns' in the Bible

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you'll eat the plants from the meadows.

But if you fail to drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, their survivors will become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, to prick your sides and afflict you in the very land in which you'll be living.

know for certain that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations ahead of you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you, a whip to your backs, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

So Gideon responded, "Okay then, but when the LORD has turned over Zebah and Zalmunna into my control, I'm going to whip you with thorns and briers from the desert!"

So he took the elders of the city and disciplined the men of Succoth with thorns and briers from the desert.

But ungodly men are like thorns that are discarded because they cannot be safely handled.

Then the hungry will devour his harvest, snatching it even from the midst of thorns, while the thirsty covet their wealth.

may thorns spring up instead of wheat, and obnoxious weeds instead of barley." With this, Job's discourse with his friends is completed.

Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns whether green or ablaze wrath will sweep them away like a storm.

They surrounded me like bees; but they will be extinguished like burning thorns. In the name of the LORD I will defeat them.

Thorns and snares lie in the path of the perverse person, but whoever is cautious stays far away from them.

There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed.

For as thorns burn to heat a pot, so also is the laughter of the fool even this is pointless.

Like a lily among thorns, so is my darling among the young women.

I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."

"At that time, every place where once there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briars and thorns will grow.

"People will come there armed with bows and arrows, because the entire land will be nothing but briers and thorns.

As for all the hills that used to be cultivated with a hoe, you won't go there, because you'll fear iron briars and thorns. Nevertheless, those hills will be reserved as a pasture where cattle will feed and where sheep will graze."

"For wickedness has burned like a blaze that consumes briers and thorns; it sets thickets of the forest on fire, and skyward they swirl in a column of smoke.

"The light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame, and it will burn and consume Assyria's thorns and briers in a single day.

I am not angry. If only the vineyard could give me briers and thorns to battle, I would march against it, and I would burn it all up.

and over the land of my people overgrown with thorns and briers yes, over all the houses of merriment and over this city of revelry.

Thorns will grow over its palaces, nettles and brambles its fortresses. It will become a haunt for jackals, a home for ostriches.

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, "Break up your unplowed ground, and don't sow among thorns.

They have sown wheat, but they have harvested thorns. They have tired themselves out, but they don't show a profit. Now be disappointed about your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

"Look how I'm blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can't find her way.

Look! They have gone away because of the destruction Egypt will gather them up, and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will overgrow their inheritance, and thorns will grow in their tents.

The best of them is like a thorn, and their most upright like a hedge of thorns. The day announced by your watchmen and by your own calculations approaches. Now it's your time to be confused!

You will know them by their fruit. Grapes aren't gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles, are they?

Twisting some thorns into a victor's crown, they placed it on his head and put a stick in his right hand. They knelt down in front of him and began making fun of him, saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

They dressed him in a purple robe, twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, and placed it on his head.

The soldiers twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, put it on his head, and threw a purple robe on him.

Then Jesus came outside, wearing the victor's crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate told them, "Here is the man!"

However, if it continues to produce thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be burned.