Psalms 118:12

Enemies swarmed like bees but were quenched like burning thorns; in the Lord's name he cut them off. It matters because hostile threats, however fierce, quickly fail before God.

Cross-references · 17

• Deut 1:44Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
• 1 Sam 17:45But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
• Ps 20:5May we shout for joy at your victory and raise a banner in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your petitions.
• Ps 20:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
• Eccl 7:6For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
• Ps 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
• Ps 8:9O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
• 2 Sam 23:6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
• 1 Chr 14:10–11So David inquired of God, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go,” replied the LORD, “for I will deliver them into your hand.”
• Isa 27:4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
• 1 Chr 14:14–16So David again inquired of God, who answered him, “Do not march up after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
• 2 Chr 20:17–22You need not fight this battle. Take up your positions, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out and face them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you.’”
• Nah 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
• Ps 83:14–15As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
• 2 Chr 14:11–12Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”
• 2 Chr 16:7–9At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.
• 2 Chr 22:7–8Ahaziah’s downfall came from God when he went to visit Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

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