Genesis 3:18

God Pronounces Judgment

¹⁷ To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, 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 toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. ¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹ By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of 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 for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge 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

He said, "Naked I came 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 take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Job 31:40

let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

Psalm 104:2

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

Psalm 104:14-15

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

Proverbs 24:31

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 5:6

I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

Isaiah 7:23

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

Isaiah 32:13

Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Jeremiah 4:3

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

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Matthew 13:7

Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

Romans 14:2

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.