⁶ But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:

¹⁸ Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

¹³ That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;

¹² Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.

¹ Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

² As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.

¹² And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

⁶ And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

⁴¹ The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,