thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
2 Samuel 23:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But the godless are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be picked up with the hand; Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But wicked, godless, and worthless lives are all like thorns to be thrust away, because they cannot be taken with the hand. American Standard Version (1901) But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand; Common English Bible But despicable people are like thorns, all of them good for nothing, because they can’t be carried by hand. Catholic Public Domain Version But all prevaricators shall be plucked out like thorns, yet they are not taken away by hands. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away with hands. |
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Now a scoundrel named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and cried out, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! Everyone to your tents, O Israel!”
I have no wrath. If it gives me thorns and briers, I will march to battle against it. I will burn it up.
And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.”
And you, O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their sentinels, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
Like thorns they are entangled; like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.
The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers,
that scoundrels from among you have gone out and led the inhabitants of the town astray, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ whom you have not known,
Now, therefore, know this and consider what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his house; he is so ill-natured that no one can speak to him.”