They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Yahweh 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:
A Psalm of David. Yahweh hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the Elohim of Jacob defend thee;
We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our Elohim we will set up our banners: Yahweh fulfil all thy petitions.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
O Yahweh our Sovereign, how excellent is thy name in all the earth To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben.
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 be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
And the Amorites, which 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, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the Elohim of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.