Proverbs 24:31

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Job 31:40 : 40 then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” The words of Job are ended.
  • Prov 19:23 : 23 Fearing the LORD leads to life, and one who does so will live satisfied; he will not be afflicted by calamity.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”
  • Prov 23:21 : 21 because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.
  • Eccl 10:18 : 18 Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
  • Jer 4:3 : 3 Yes, this is what the LORD has said to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:“Break up your unplowed ground, do not cast seeds among thorns.
  • Matt 13:7 : 7 Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.
  • Matt 13:22 : 22 The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

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    32Then I scrutinized it. I was putting my mind to it– I saw; I took in a lesson:

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  • Prov 24:30
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    30I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks sense.

  • Ps 80:12-13
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    12Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?

    13The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it.

  • Jer 4:26
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    26I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desert and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins. The LORD had brought this all about because of his blazing anger.

  • Isa 5:4-6
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    4What more can I do for my vineyard beyond what I have already done? When I waited for it to produce edible grapes, why did it produce sour ones instead?

    5Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.

    6I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

  • Isa 24:12
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    12The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Isa 32:13
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    13Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.

  • Ezek 13:12
    72%

    12When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”

  • Ezek 36:34
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    34The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • Ps 89:40
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    40You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

  • Isa 34:13
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    13Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there.

  • Ezek 8:7
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    7He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

  • Isa 27:10
    72%

    10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

  • Isa 5:2
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    2He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.

  • Mark 4:7
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    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

  • Isa 22:10
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    10You counted the houses in Jerusalem, and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.

  • Isa 7:24-25
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    24With bow and arrow men will hunt there, for the whole land will be covered with thorns and briers.

    25They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

  • Isa 24:10
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    10The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.

  • Jer 4:17
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    17They will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field because they have rebelled against me,” says the LORD.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.

  • Ezek 13:14-15
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    14I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, and you will know that I am the LORD.

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  • Jer 12:10-11
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    70%

    10Many foreign rulers will ruin the land where I planted my people. They will trample all over my chosen land. They will turn my beautiful land into a desolate wilderness.

    11They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.

  • Jer 45:4
    70%

    4The LORD told Jeremiah,“Tell Baruch,‘The LORD says,“I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.

  • Prov 15:19
    70%

    19The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

  • Isa 37:27
    70%

    27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • Eccl 9:14
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    14There was once a small city with a few men in it, and a mighty king attacked it, besieging it and building strong siege works against it.

  • Isa 25:12
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    12The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

  • Mic 3:12
    69%

    12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!

  • Isa 2:15
    69%

    15for every high tower, for every fortified wall,

  • Heb 6:8
    69%

    8But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

  • Jer 4:3
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    3Yes, this is what the LORD has said to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:“Break up your unplowed ground, do not cast seeds among thorns.

  • Matt 13:7
    69%

    7Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.

  • Isa 24:1
    69%

    1The Lord Will Judge the Earth Look, the LORD is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
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    26Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • Matt 24:2
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    2And he said to them,“Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

  • Neh 2:13
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    13I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons and the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

  • Luke 8:7
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    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up with it and choked it.

  • Job 5:3
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    3I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.