Verses for and briers

But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.