They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
And the Amorites, that dwelt in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to thee in the name of Jehovah of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
We will triumph in thy salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners: Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth!
But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand;
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.
And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.