18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-19)I. God put marks of his displeasure on Adam in three instances:— 1. His habitation is, by this sentence, cursed: Cursed is the ground for thy sake ; and the effect of that curse is, Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth unto thee . It is here intimated that his habitation should be changed; he should no longer dwell in a distinguished, blessed, paradise, but should be removed to common ground,…
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