Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

They bray among the shrubs;they huddle beneath the thistles.

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.

Thistles had come up everywhere,weeds covered the ground,and the stone wall was ruined.

Israel’s Light will become a fire,and its Holy One, a flame.In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

The nations rage like the raging of many waters.He rebukes them, and they flee far away,driven before the wind like chaff on the hillsand like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles and briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.She will become a dwelling for jackals,an abode for ostriches.

And you, son of man, neither fear them nor fear their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions; neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their presence, for they are a rebellious house.

For even if they flee from devastation,Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;thorns will invade their tents.

The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,will be destroyed;thorns and thistles will grow over their altars.They will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.