Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.