Genesis 3:18

God Pronounces Judgment

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; ¹⁸ and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

Grass of the Field

Thorns and Thistles

Joshua 23:13

know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.

Job 1:21

and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!

Job 5:5

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

Job 31:40

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Psalm 90:3

Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

Psalm 104:2

Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain; --

Psalm 104:14-15

He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.

Proverbs 24:31

and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 5:6

and I will make it a waste it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 7:23

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:

Isaiah 32:13

Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles and briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up for you a fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and do not profit. Be ye therefore ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

Matthew 13:7

and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them;

Romans 14:2

One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

Hebrews 6:8

but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned.