Genesis 3:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ and the ground shall bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Weeds and thistles will grow for you, even as you eat the field’s plants;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Thorns and thistles shall it produce for you, and you shall eat the plants of the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

Genesis 3:18 Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And to the man He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘Do not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground because of you, in toil you are to eat of it all the days of your life,

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you are to eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you return.

Job 1:21

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I return there. יהוה has given, and יהוה has taken away. Blessed be the Name of יהוה.”

Job 31:40

let thistles grow instead of wheat, and useless weed instead of barley.” The words of Iyoḇ are ended.

Job 5:5

The hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the snare snaps up their wealth.

Psalm 104:2

Covering Yourself with light as with a garment, Stretching out the heavens like a curtain,

Psalm 90:3

You turn man back to dust, And say, “Return, O children of men.”

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns, snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards his life keeps far away from them.

Proverbs 24:31

And see, it was all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; And its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 32:13

Weeds and thornbushes come up over the ground of My people, indeed, over all the houses of joy, the city of revelry;

Isaiah 5:6

and I lay it waste; it is not pruned or dug and thornbushes and weeds shall come up; and I command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 7:23

And it shall be in that day, every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand sheqels of silver, let it be for thornbushes and weeds.

Isaiah 7:24

With arrows and bows one shall go there, because all the land shall be thornbushes and weeds.

Jeremiah 12:13

“They have sown wheat but reaped thorns, they have exhausted themselves – they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the burning displeasure of יהוה.”

Jeremiah 4:3

For this is what יהוה said to the men of Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim, “Break up your tillable ground, and do not sow among thorns.

Matthew 13:7

“And others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.

Romans 14:2

One indeed believes to eat all food, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

but if it brings forth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near to being cursed, and ends up by being burned.

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that יהוה your Elohim shall no longer drive these nations out from before you. And they shall be snares and traps to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which יהוה your Elohim has given you.