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. Cross References Isaiah 10:3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth? Isaiah 22:5 For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision--of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains. Jeremiah 11:23 There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment." Jeremiah 46:21 Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them--the time of their punishment. Ezekiel 2:6 But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house. Ezekiel 28:24 For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.' Hosea 9:7 The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived--let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility. Nahum 1:10 For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard--like stubble that is fully dry. Treasury of Scripture The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your visitation comes; now shall be their perplexity. is a. 2 Samuel 23:6,7 Isaiah 55:13 Ezekiel 2:6 the day. Ezekiel 12:23,24 Hosea 9:7,8 Amos 8:2 thy. Isaiah 10:3 Jeremiah 8:12 Jeremiah 10:15 now. Isaiah 22:5 Luke 21:25 |