Genesis 3:18

God Pronounces Judgment

¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, Because you have listened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life; ¹⁸  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field; ¹⁹ In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.

Grass of the Field

Thorns and Thistles

Joshua 23:13

Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

Job 1:21

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there: the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Job 5:5

Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their wealth.

Job 31:40

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.

Psalm 104:2

Who covers yourself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain:

Psalm 104:14-15

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.

Proverbs 24:31

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and weeds had covered its face, and its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 7:23

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there could be a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, it shall even be briers and thorns.

Isaiah 32:13

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the joyous houses in the joyous city:

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Matthew 13:7

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

Romans 14:2

For one believes that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eats herbs.

Hebrews 6:8

But that which bears thorns and briars is worthless, and is near unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.