Lexicon :: Strong's G173 - akantha

“It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field.

“When a fire gets out of control, spreads to thornbushes, and consumes stacks of cut grain, standing grain, or a field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution for what was burned.

Gideon replied, “Very well, when the LORD has handed Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will tear[fn] your flesh with thorns and briers from the wilderness! ”

So he took the elders of the city, and he took some thorns and briers from the wilderness, and he disciplined the men of Succoth with them.

But all the wicked are like thorns raked aside;

they can never be picked up by hand.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me;

my strength was drained[fn]

as in the summer’s heat.Selah

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns —

whether green or burning —

he will sweep them away.[fn]

They surrounded me like bees;

they were extinguished like a fire among thorns;

in the name of the LORD I destroyed them.

A slacker’s way is like a thorny hedge,

but the path of the upright is a highway.

A proverb in the mouth of a fool

is like a stick with thorns,

brandished by[fn] the hand of a drunkard.

for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot,

so is the laughter of the fool.

This too is futile.

Like a lily among thorns,

so is my darling among the young women.

He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,

and planted it with the finest vines.

He built a tower in the middle of it

and even dug out a winepress there.

He expected it to yield good grapes,

but it yielded worthless grapes.

What more could I have done for my vineyard

than I did?

Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes,

did it yield worthless grapes?

I will make it a wasteland.

It will not be pruned or weeded;

thorns and briers will grow up.

I will also give orders to the clouds

that rain should not fall on it.

And on that day

every place where there were a thousand vines,

worth a thousand pieces of silver,

will become thorns and briers.

for the ground of my people

growing thorns and briers,

indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.

“The peoples will be burned to ashes,

like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:

Break up the unplowed ground;

do not sow among the thorns.

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns.

They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.

Be put to shame by your harvests

because of the LORD’s burning anger.

“ ‘The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by[fn] prickly briers or painful thorns from all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.

For even if they flee from devastation,

Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.

Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;

thorns will invade their tents.

The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,

will be destroyed;

thorns and thistles will grow over their altars.

They will say to the mountains, “Cover us! ”

and to the hills, “Fall on us! ”