And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
There shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel - as the idolatrous nations left in Canaan There shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel - as the idolatrous nations left in Canaan (among which Zidon is expressly specified in the limits of Asher, Judges 1:31) had been (Numbers 33:55; Joshua 23:13). "A brier," first ensnaring the Israelites in sin (as a brier catches in one's garment), and then being made the instrument of punishing them.
Pricking, х mam'iyr (H3992), from maa'ar (H3992), to grieve] - literally, 'causing bitterness.' The same Hebrew is translated 'fretting' (Leviticus 13:51-52). The wicked are often called "thorns" (2 Samuel 23:6).