New Revised Standard Version
and see, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Contemporary English Version
Thorns and weeds were everywhere, and the stone wall had fallen down.

New American Bible
It was all overgrown with thistles; its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall broken down.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.

And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.

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Genesis 3:17-19 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. . . .

Job 31:40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

Jeremiah 4:3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:

Matthew 13:7,22 And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked them. . . .

Hebrews 6:8 But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.

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Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the Lord is unto life: and he shall abide in the fulness without being visited with evil.

Proverbs 20:4 Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

Proverbs 22:13 The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.

Proverbs 23:21 Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

Ecclesiastes 10:18 By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.