Genesis 3:18

The cursed ground will now produce thorns and thistles, making survival a struggle. It pictures the frustration sin introduces into human work.

Cross-references · 17

• Job 5:5whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
• Isa 7:23It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
• Ps 104:14–15He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
• Matt 13:7Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
• Prov 22:5Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.
• Job 31:40let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
• Jer 4:3For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
• Isa 32:13Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
• Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
• Josh 23:13know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
• Heb 6:8but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
• Ps 90:3You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
• Job 1:21He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
• Ps 104:2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
• Prov 24:31Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
• Jer 12:13They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing. You shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.”
• Rom 14:2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

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