Genesis 3:18: It will produce thorns and thistles for you,and you will eat the plants of the field.

Judges 8:7: Then Gideon replied, “Just for that, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.”

Judges 8:16: He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers.

Hosea 10:8: The high places of wickedness[a] will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel. Thorns and thistles will grow up and cover their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”