2 Samuel 23:5-7

New American Standard Bible

⁵ Is my house not indeed so with God?
For ^(A)He has made an everlasting covenant with me,
Properly ordered in all things, and secured;
For will He not indeed make
All my salvation and all my delight grow?
^6 (B)But the worthless, every one of them, are like scattered thorns,
Because they cannot be taken in hand;
⁷ Instead, the man who touches them
Must be ^[a]armed with iron and the shaft of a spear,
And ^(C)they will be completely burned with fire in their ^[b]place.”