²³ And on that day
every place where there were a thousand vines,
worth a thousand pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.^(A)
24 A man will go there with bow and arrows
because the whole land will be thorns and briers.
²⁵ You will not go to all the hills
that were once tilled with a hoe,
for fear of the thorns and briers.
Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
and for sheep to trample.

¹⁸ For wickedness burns like a fire^(A)
that consumes thorns and briers
and kindles the forest thickets
so that they go up in a column of smoke.