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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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 

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 

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

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly ¹  as a fire among thorns. ²  Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

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

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.

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 

At that time ¹  every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun ²  with thorns and briers.