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)
Malachi 1:3
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3 but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.(A)
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Zephaniah 2:9
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9 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel,
Moab shall become like Sodom
and the Ammonites 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.(A)
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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Psalm 72:20
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20 The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended.
Genesis 3:17-18
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17 And to the man[a] he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
about which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;(A)
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.(B)
Footnotes
- 3.17 Or to Adam
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