2 Samuel 23:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ “My house stands firm with God,
    for he has made an everlasting covenant with me,
    well ordered in all things and secure.
Will he not bring to fruition
    my salvation and my every desire?
⁶ “But the ungodly are all like thorns
    that must be cast aside,
    for they cannot be grasped by the hand.
⁷ No one dares to touch them
    except with an iron bar or the shaft of a spear,
    and then only to consume them by fire.”