the burnings

Amos 2:1
This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

thorns

Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in columns of smoke.

Isaiah 27:4
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185, 000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

2 Samuel 23:6, 7
But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand. . . .