The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down t
But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, a
What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will yo
But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool,
Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a n
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring
Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will put an end to this proverb, and in Israel they will no
But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blu