You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered ¹  from thorns or figs from thistles, are they? ² 

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain ¹  of the field.

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; ¹  its fate is to be burned.

King Joash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thorn bush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn bush. ¹ 

King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal ¹  of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn. ² 

then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” ¹  The words of Job are ended.

The high places of the “House ¹  of Wickedness” ²  will be destroyed; it is the place where Israel sins. Thorns and thistles will grow up over its altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow ¹  in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there. ² 

I saw ¹  that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground ²  was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

When ¹  the plants sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

He seized the leaders ¹  of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then “threshed” the men of Succoth with them. ² 

“So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’ ¹ 

O my God, make them like dead thistles, ¹  like dead weeds blown away by ²  the wind!

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

But he said, ‘No, since in gathering the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them.

The field is the world and the good seed are the people ¹  of the kingdom. The weeds are the people ²  of the evil one,

As ¹  the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, ¹  when he shouts at ²  them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles ³  before a strong gale.

Gideon said, “Since you will not help, ¹  after the Lord hands Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will thresh ²  your skin ³  with ⁴  desert thorns and briers.”

For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves, ²  “There is no God.” ³  They sin and commit evil deeds; ⁴  none of them does what is right. ⁵