Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Thistles

Genesis 3:17
And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.
Isaiah 7:23
And on that day
every place where there were 1,000 vines,
worth 1,000 pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel—
Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah
a place overgrown with weeds,
a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.
Malachi 1:3
but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

The

Psalm 72:20
The prayers of David son of Jesse are concluded.

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