2 Samuel 23:5-7

Modern English Version

⁵ Is not my house like this with God?
    For He made an everlasting covenant with me,
    ordered in all things and secure.
For this is all my salvation and all my desire;
    will He not make it flourish?
⁶ But the worthless individual is like a thorn tossed away, all of them,
    for they cannot be taken with the hand.
⁷ But the man who touches them
    must have an iron implement and the shaft of a spear,
    and they must be burned with fire on the spot.