Isaiah 5:6 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 7:24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 7:25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 10:17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 27:4 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. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: (Root in KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 28:24 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them, that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Micah 7:4 The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)