Proverbs 24:31

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Thorns had grown all over it, the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

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  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 To Adam He said, 'Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, "You must not eat from it," cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.' 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Job 31:40 : 40 then let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Prov 19:23 : 23 The fear of the LORD leads to life; one is content and rests untroubled by harm.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard does not plow in the winter; at harvest time he looks for something, but finds nothing.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The lazy person says, 'There's a lion outside! I might be killed in the streets!'
  • Prov 23:21 : 21 For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
  • Eccl 10:18 : 18 Because of laziness, the roof sinks, and through idle hands, the house leaks.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 Now let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  • Jer 4:3 : 3 For this is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among thorns.
  • Matt 13:7 : 7 Other seeds fell among thorns, which grew up and choked them.
  • Matt 13:22 : 22 The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

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    12Only desolation is left in the city; the gate is battered into ruins.

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