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

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

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

²⁰ The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. <A Psalm. Of Asaph.>

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.

⁹ For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

³ And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.