Genesis 3:18

New English Translation

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

But to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!”

Job 31:40

then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” The words of Job are ended.

Job 5:5

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

Psalm 104:2

He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

Psalm 90:3

You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

Proverbs 24:31

I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 32:13

Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

Isaiah 7:23

At that time every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun with thorns and briers.

Isaiah 7:24

With bow and arrow men will hunt there, for the whole land will be covered with thorns and briers.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4:3

Yes, the Lord has this to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: “Like a farmer breaking up hard unplowed ground, you must break your rebellious will and make a new beginning; just as a farmer must clear away thorns lest the seed is wasted, you must get rid of the sin that is ruining your lives.

Matthew 13:7

Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.

Romans 14:2

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

Hebrews 6:8

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God gave you.