The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmun´na, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmun´na now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?
And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmun´na into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.