Genesis 3:18
Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
Joshua 23:13
Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Job 5:5
Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
Job 31:40
Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
Psalm 104:2
You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
Psalm 104:14-15
He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.
Proverbs 24:31
And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Isaiah 7:23
And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.
Isaiah 32:13
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
Jeremiah 4:3
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.
Jeremiah 12:13
Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
Matthew 13:7
And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:
Romans 14:2
One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.
Hebrews 6:8
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.