2 Samuel 23:4-7

4is like the light of morning when the sun comes up, a morning in which there are no clouds. He is like the brightness after rain that produces grass from the earth.

5My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.

6But evil people are like thorns – all of them are tossed away, for they cannot be held in the hand.

7The one who touches them must use an iron instrument or the wooden shaft of a spear. They are completely burned up right where they lie!”