Genesis 3:18
Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:21With 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.
Job 31:40Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
Psalms 104:2You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
Proverbs 22:5Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.
Isaiah 5:6And 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.
Isaiah 7:24Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:18-20
Sentence Passed on Adam; Consequences of the Fall. ( b. c. 4004.) 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for… Read the whole commentary →