But all the wicked are like thorns raked aside;
they can never be picked up by hand.

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But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,(A)
    which are not gathered with the hand.

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24 “‘The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by[a] prickly briers or painful thorns(A) from all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.

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Footnotes

  1. 28:24 Lit longer have

24 “‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.(A) Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

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The best of them is like a brier;(A)
the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.(B)
The day of your watchmen,
the day of your punishment, is coming;(C)
at this time their panic is here.(D)

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The best of them is like a brier,(A)
    the most upright worse than a thorn(B) hedge.
The day God visits you has come,
    the day your watchmen sound the alarm.
    Now is the time of your confusion.(C)

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