Bible Verses About Thistles

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

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

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

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

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.

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

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

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

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

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

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

But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

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.

For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

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

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.