4 Bible Verses about Nettles

Most Relevant Verses

Proverbs 24:31

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

Job 30:7

They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

Hebrews 6:7-8

For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God: But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.

From Thematic Bible


Nettles » Figurative

Zephaniah 2:9

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

Hosea 9:6

For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.

Job 30:7

They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

Nettles » An obnoxious plant

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

Proverbs 24:31

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

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