¹⁸ Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

¹³ Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

² One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

⁷ And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

¹³ Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

³ For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

¹³ And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

²³ And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

³¹ And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

⁵ Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

¹⁵ And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

² You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

³ You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

⁴⁰ Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.

⁵ Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

⁸ But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.