Brier

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.

The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”

But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.

For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.

The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.

The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand, knelt down before Him, and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.

Others are like the seeds sown among the thorns. They hear the word,

But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and set it on His head.

For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles.

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.

The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.

Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.

When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.