Genesis 3:18

God Pronounces Judgment

¹⁷ Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’;

The ground is [now] under a curse because of you;
In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it
All the days of your life.
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“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you shall eat the plants of the field.
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“By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread
Until you return to the ground,
For from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

Grass of the Field

Thorns and Thistles

Joshua 23:13

know and understand with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Job 1:21

He said,

“Naked (without possessions) I came [into this world] from my mother’s womb,
And naked I will return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 5:5

“The hungry devour his harvest
And take it even [when it grows] among the thorns;
The trap opens for [his] wealth.

Job 31:40

Let thorns grow instead of wheat,
And stinkweed and cockleburs instead of barley.”

So the words of Job [with his friends] are finished.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”

Psalm 104:2

[You are the One] who covers Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain,

Psalm 104:14-15

He causes grass to grow for the cattle,
And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man,
So that he may bring food from the earth—

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate [for their lack of honor and their wrong-doing traps them];
He who guards himself [with godly wisdom] will be far from them and avoid the consequences they suffer.

Proverbs 24:31

And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns,
And nettles were covering its surface,
And its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 5:6

“I will turn it into a wasteland;
It will not be pruned or cultivated,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 7:23

And it will come to pass in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be briars and thorns.

Isaiah 32:13

For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars—
Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Jeremiah 4:3

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,

“Plow your uncultivated ground [for a season],
And do not sow among thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

“They have planted wheat but have reaped thorns;
They have exhausted themselves but without profit.
So be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce and raging anger of the Lord.”

Matthew 13:7

Other seed fell among thorns, and thorns came up and choked them out.

Romans 14:2

One man’s faith permits him to eat everything, while the weak believer eats only vegetables [to avoid eating ritually unclean meat or something previously considered unclean].

Hebrews 6:8

but if it persistently produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.