'Thorns' in the Bible

Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

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

"But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.

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

Therefore 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 to you."

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

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

But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can't be taken with the hand,

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall 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. Beloved

I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."

For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

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, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.

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

You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

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

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

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

Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.