Proverbs 24:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 3:17-19 : 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; 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Job 31:40 : 40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
  • Prov 19:23 : 23 The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.
  • Prov 23:21 : 21 For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
  • Eccl 10:18 : 18 When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
  • Jer 4:3 : 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.
  • Matt 13:7 : 7 And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:
  • Matt 13:22 : 22 And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.
  • Heb 6:8 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    32 Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.

    33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 24:30
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    30 I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

  • Ps 80:12-13
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    12 Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

    13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

  • Jer 4:26
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    26 Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.

  • Isa 5:4-6
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    4 Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

    5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

    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.

  • Isa 24:12
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    12 In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Isa 32:13
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    13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

  • Ezek 13:12
    72%

    12 And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?

  • Ezek 36:34
    72%

    34 And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

  • Ps 89:40
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    40 All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

  • Isa 34:13
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    13 And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

  • Ezek 8:7
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    7 And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

  • Isa 5:2
    71%

    2 And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

  • Mark 4:7
    71%

    7 And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit.

  • Isa 22:10
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    10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18 When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

  • Isa 7:24-25
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    24 Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.

    25 And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

  • Isa 24:10
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    10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

  • Jer 4:17
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    17 Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

  • Ezek 13:14-15
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    14 So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.

    15 So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?

  • Jer 12:10-11
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    70%

    10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

    11 They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

  • Jer 45:4
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    4 This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

  • Prov 15:19
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    19 Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6 For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

  • Isa 37:27
    70%

    27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

  • Eccl 9:14
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    14 There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

  • Isa 25:12
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    12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • Mic 3:12
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    12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Isa 2:15
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    15 And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

  • Heb 6:8
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    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.

  • Jer 4:3
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    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.

  • Matt 13:7
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    7 And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

  • Isa 24:1
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    1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
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    26 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

  • Matt 24:2
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    2 But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down.

  • Neh 2:13
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    13 And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.

  • Luke 8:7
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    7 And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth.

  • Job 5:3
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    3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.