Proverbs 24:31

KJV1611 – Modern English

And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

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  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 Then to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
  • Job 31:40 : 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
  • Prov 19:23 : 23 The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore he shall beg during harvest, and have nothing.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The slothful man says, 'There is a lion outside; I shall be slain in the streets.'
  • Prov 23:21 : 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
  • Eccl 10:18 : 18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 And now, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:
  • Jer 4:3 : 3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your unplowed ground, and sow not among thorns.
  • Matt 13:7 : 7 Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
  • Matt 13:22 : 22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But that which bears thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near to being cursed, its end is to be burned.

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    12Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

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    26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

  • Isa 5:4-6
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    4What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?

    5And now, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:

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    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

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    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Isa 32:13
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    13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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    12Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?'

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    34And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all who passed by.

  • Ps 89:40
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    40You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.

  • Isa 34:13
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    13And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation for dragons, and a court for owls.

  • Ezek 8:7
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    7And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

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    2And he fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.

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    7And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

  • Isa 22:10
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    10And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

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    24With arrows and with bows shall men come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

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    7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

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    10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

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    4Thus you shall say to him, The LORD says this; Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will uproot, even this whole land.

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    15And upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,

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    8But that which bears thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near to being cursed, its end is to be burned.

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    3For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your unplowed ground, and sow not among thorns.

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    7Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

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    26Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blighted before it is grown up.

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    2And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone will be left here upon another that will not be thrown down.

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    7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

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    3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.