'Thorns and Thistles' in the Bible

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

The high places of the "House of Wickedness" will be destroyed; it is the place where Israel sins. Thorns and thistles will grow up over its altars. Then they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" and to the hills, "Fall on us!"

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.