They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the LORD’s name I cut them off.
But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.
May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,
We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May the LORD grant all your requests.
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
LORD, our Lord, how majestic 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.
Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burnt in the fire.
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, 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.