Quotes about 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.
- Isaiah 7:25
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
- Isaiah 9:18
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.
- Isaiah 10:17
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
- Isaiah 27:4
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- Isaiah 32:13
The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
- Isaiah 33:12
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
- Isaiah 34:13
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
- Jeremiah 4:3
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 12:13
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
- Hosea 2:6
For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.
- Hosea 9:6
The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
- Hosea 10:8