Genesis 3:18
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18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.(A)
Matthew 13:7
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7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
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Isaiah 7:23
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23 On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.
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Job 5:5
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5 The hungry eat their harvest,
and they take it even out of the thorns,[a]
and the thirsty[b] pant after their wealth.(A)
Hebrews 6:8
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8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and on the verge of being cursed; its end is to be burned over.(A)
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Jeremiah 4:3
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3 For thus says the Lord to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
Break up your fallow ground,
and do not sow among thorns.(A)
Isaiah 32:13
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13 for the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers,
yes, for all the joyous houses
in the jubilant city.(A)
Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will make it a wasteland;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.(A)
Proverbs 22:5
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5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
the cautious will keep far from them.(A)
Psalm 104:14-15
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14 You cause the grass to grow for the cattle
and plants for people to cultivate,
to bring forth food from the earth(A)
15 and wine to gladden the human heart,
oil to make the face shine
and bread to strengthen the human heart.(B)
Job 31:40
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40 let thorns grow instead of wheat
and foul weeds instead of barley.”
The words of Job are ended.(A)
Joshua 23:13
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13 know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.(A)
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Jeremiah 12:13
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13 They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns;
they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
They shall be ashamed of their[a] harvests
because of the fierce anger of the Lord.(A)
Footnotes
- 12.13 Heb your
Proverbs 24:31
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31 and see, it was all overgrown with thorns;
the ground was covered with nettles,
and its stone wall was broken down.
Psalm 104:2
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2 wrapped in light as with a garment.
You stretch out the heavens like a tent;(A)
Psalm 90:3
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Footnotes
- 90.3 Heb humankind
Job 1:21
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21 He said, “Naked I came from 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.”(A)
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Romans 14:2
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2 Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables.(A)
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