Psalm 118:12

English Standard Version 2016

They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:44

Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

1 Samuel 17:45

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

Psalm 20:5

May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.

Psalm 20:1

May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!

Psalm 58:9

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

Psalm 8:9

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

2 Samuel 23:6

But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand;

Nahum 1:10

For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

Isaiah 27:4

I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.

Isaiah 33:12

And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”