Genesis 3:18

God Pronounces Judgment

¹⁷ And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, ¹⁸ and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; ¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

Grass of the Field

Thorns and Thistles

Joshua 23:13

know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.

Job 1:21

and he saith, 'Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

Job 5:5

Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

Job 31:40

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

Psalm 90:3

Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

Psalm 104:2

Covering himself with light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

Psalm 104:14-15

Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns -- snares are in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

Proverbs 24:31

And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

Isaiah 5:6

And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.

Isaiah 7:23

And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns.

Isaiah 32:13

Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.

Matthew 13:7

and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns did come up and choke them,

Romans 14:2

one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

Hebrews 6:8

and that which is bearing thorns and briers is disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end is for burning;