Other seeds fell among the thorns, ¹  and they grew up and choked them. ² 

Other seed fell among the thorns, ¹  and they grew up with it and choked ²  it.

Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

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

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 

But evil people are like thorns – all of them are tossed away, for they cannot be held in the hand.

They put a purple cloak ¹  on him and after braiding ²  a crown of thorns, ³  they put it on him.

The soldiers ¹  braided ²  a crown of thorns ³  and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe. ⁴ 

Other seed fell among the thorns, ¹  and they grew up and choked it, ²  and it did not produce grain.

For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns ¹  under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly ²  also is useless. ³ 

With bow and arrow ¹  men will hunt ²  there, for the whole land will be covered ³  with thorns and briers.

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

The hungry ¹  eat up his harvest, ²  and take it even from behind the thorns, ³  and the thirsty ⁴  swallow up ⁵  their fortune. ⁶ 

The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, ¹  but the path of the upright is like ²  a highway. ³ 

Thorns and snares ¹  are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

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.

The nations will be burned to ashes; ¹  like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.

The Lover to His Beloved: Like ¹  a lily among the thorns, ²  so is my darling among the maidens.

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.”

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, ¹  and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.