24 “And for the house of Israel (A)there shall be no more a brier to prick or (B)a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors (C)who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.

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But worthless men[a] are all like thorns that are thrown away,
    for they cannot be taken with the hand;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 23:6 Hebrew worthlessness

The best of them is (A)like a brier,
    the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of (B)your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
    (C)now their confusion is at hand.

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