Job 31:40
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40 let (A)thorns grow instead of wheat,
and foul weeds instead of barley.”
The words of Job are ended.
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Malachi 1:3
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3 but Esau I have hated. (A)I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”
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Zephaniah 2:9
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9 Therefore, (A)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become (B)like Sodom,
and the Ammonites (C)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
Isaiah 7:23
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23 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels[a] of silver, will become (A)briers and thorns.
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- Isaiah 7:23 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Psalm 72:20
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Genesis 3:17-18
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17 And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
(A)of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
(B)cursed is the ground because of you;
(C)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
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