Numbers 33:55

55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as abarbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.

Joshua 23:13

13know for certain that bthe Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, cbut they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.

Judges 2:3

3So now I say, dI will not drive them out before you, but they shall become ethorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

Isaiah 35:9

9No lion shall be there,
nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;
they shall not be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there.

Isaiah 55:13

13 fInstead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the Lord,
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

Jeremiah 12:14

14Thus says the Lord concerning all gmy evil neighbors hwho touch the heritage that iI have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

Micah 7:4

4The best of them is jlike a brier,
the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of kyour watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
lnow their confusion is at hand.
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