For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard--like stubble that is fully dry. Cross References 2 Samuel 23:6 But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand. Psalm 118:12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off. Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke. Isaiah 10:17 And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria's thorns and thistles. Isaiah 47:14 Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside. Isaiah 56:12 "Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!" Micah 7:4 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. Nahum 3:11 You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy. Malachi 4:1 "For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze," says the LORD of Hosts. "Not a root or branch will be left to them." Treasury of Scripture For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. while they be. 2 Samuel 23:6,7 Micah 7:4 1 Thessalonians 5:2,3 drunken. Nahum 3:11 1 Samuel 25:36 2 Samuel 13:28 they shall. Psalm 68:2 Isaiah 9:18 Isaiah 10:17-19 |