Gen 3:18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Exo 22:6 “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.
Judg 8:7 So Gideon said, “Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
Judg 8:16 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 a lesson.
2Sa 23:6 But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away,
for they cannot be taken with the hand;
for they cannot be taken with the hand;
Psa 118:12 They surrounded me like bees;
they went out like a fire among thorns;
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
they went out like a fire among thorns;
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
Isa 32:13 for the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers,
yes, for all the joyous houses
in the exultant city.
growing up in thorns and briers,
yes, for all the joyous houses
in the exultant city.
Isa 33:12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
Jer 4:3 For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your fallow ground,
and sow not among thorns.
and sow not among thorns.
Jer 12:13 They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;
they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
They shall be ashamed of their harvests
because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
They shall be ashamed of their harvests
because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
Eze 28:24 “And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.
Hos 10:8 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,
shall be destroyed.
Thorn and thistle shall grow up
on their altars,
and they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
and to the hills, “Fall on us.”
shall be destroyed.
Thorn and thistle shall grow up
on their altars,
and they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
and to the hills, “Fall on us.”
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