They encompassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you;
We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
For while they are entangled together as thorns, and while they are drunk as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
And the Amorites, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.