Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

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

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.