Proverbs 24:31

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface 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 have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Job 31:40 : 40 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
  • Prov 19:23 : 23 The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
  • Prov 23:21 : 21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
  • Eccl 10:18 : 18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
  • Jer 4:3 : 3 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.
  • Matt 13:7 : 7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
  • Matt 13:22 : 22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

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    26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] before his fierce anger.

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

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    17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • Isa 32:13
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    13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

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    12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?

  • Ezek 36:34
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    34 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

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    40 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

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    13 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

  • Ezek 8:7
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    7 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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    10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

  • Isa 5:2
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    2 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

  • Mark 4:7
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    7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

  • Isa 22:10
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    10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Isa 7:24-25
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    4 You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

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    2 But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."

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    7 Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

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    3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.