Genesis 3:18

God Pronounces Judgment

¹⁷ He told the man, "Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, "You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground because of you. You'll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life. ¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you'll eat the plants from the meadows. ¹⁹ You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust."

Grass of the Field

Thorns and Thistles

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations ahead of you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you, a whip to your backs, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

Job 1:21

and exclaimed: "I left my mother's womb naked, and I will return to God naked. The LORD has given, and the LORD has taken. May the name of the LORD be blessed."

Job 5:5

Then the hungry will devour his harvest, snatching it even from the midst of thorns, while the thirsty covet their wealth.

Job 31:40

may thorns spring up instead of wheat, and obnoxious weeds instead of barley." With this, Job's discourse with his friends is completed.

Psalm 90:3

You return people to dust merely by saying, "Return, you mortals!"

Psalm 104:2

you are wrapped in light like a garment, stretching out the sky like a curtain.

Psalm 104:14-15

He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land,

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares lie in the path of the perverse person, but whoever is cautious stays far away from them.

Proverbs 24:31

There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed.

Isaiah 5:6

I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."

Isaiah 7:23

"At that time, every place where once there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briars and thorns will grow.

Isaiah 32:13

and over the land of my people overgrown with thorns and briers yes, over all the houses of merriment and over this city of revelry.

Jeremiah 4:3

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, "Break up your unplowed ground, and don't sow among thorns.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but they have harvested thorns. They have tired themselves out, but they don't show a profit. Now be disappointed about your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Matthew 13:7

Other seeds fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew higher and choked them out.

Romans 14:2

One person believes that he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

However, if it continues to produce thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be burned.