Thistle: A Noxious Plant

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

…then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”