Quotes about Thorns
The world is a head of thistles; whichever way you turn it, it stretches the thorns about itself.
- Martin Luther
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
- Genesis 3:18
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.
- Numbers 33:55
“Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”
- Judges 8:7
Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.
- Judges 8:16
But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
- 2 Samuel 23:6
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
- Psalm 58:9
Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
- Proverbs 22:5
Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
- Proverbs 24:31
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6
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.
- Isaiah 7:23
Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:24