Found 130 Results for: thorn in the flesh

  • When that day comes, wherever there used to be a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver, all will be brambles and thorn-bushes; (Isaiah 7, 23)

  • to be ventured into only with arrows and bow, for the country will be nothing but brambles and thorn-bushes. (Isaiah 7, 24)

  • No more will you venture on any hillside formerly under the hoe for fear of the brambles and thorn-bushes; it will be fit only for pasturing the cattle, a tramping-ground for sheep. (Isaiah 7, 25)

  • Yes, wickedness has been burning like a fire, devouring bramble and thorn-bush, setting the forest thickets ablaze -- up they go in billowing smoke! (Isaiah 9, 17)

  • They have sliced to the right and are still hungry, they have eaten to the left and are not satisfied; each devours the flesh of his own arm. (Isaiah 9, 19)

  • The light of Israel will become a fire and its Holy One a flame burning and devouring his thorn-bushes and brambles in a day. (Isaiah 10, 17)

  • -I do not have a wall. Who can reduce me to brambles and thorn-bushes? -I shall make war and trample on it and at the same time burn it. (Isaiah 27, 4)

  • The Egyptian is human, not divine, his horses are flesh, not spirit; Yahweh will stretch out his hand: the protector will stumble, the protected will fall and all will perish together. (Isaiah 31, 3)

  • Brambles will grow in its bastions, nettles and thorn-bushes in its fortresses, it will be the lair of jackals, an enclosure for ostriches. (Isaiah 34, 13)

  • I shall make your oppressors eat their own flesh, they will be as drunk on their own blood as on new wine. And all humanity will know that I am Yahweh, your Saviour, your redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. (Isaiah 49, 26)

  • As for those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to enter the gardens, following the one in the centre, who eat the flesh of pigs, revolting things and rats: their deeds and their thoughts will perish together, declares Yahweh. (Isaiah 66, 17)

  • 'Look, the days are coming, Yahweh declares, when I shall punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh: (Jeremiah 9, 24)


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