16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

16 凭着果子、就可以认。荆棘上岂能摘葡萄呢．蒺藜里岂能摘无花果呢。

44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.

44 凡树木看果子、就可以认。人不是从荆棘上摘无花果、也不是从蒺藜里摘葡萄。

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

地必你长荆棘和蒺藜，你也必吃田间菜蔬。

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

地必给你长荆棘和蒺藜，你也要吃田间菜蔬。

18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field.

18 土地会长荆棘和蒺藜，你要吃田野。

Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

人上那里去，必带弓箭，因遍地满了荆棘和蒺藜。

Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls.

以东宫殿要长荆棘，保障要长蒺藜和刺草，要作野狗住处、鸵鸟居所。

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.

若长荆棘和蒺藜，必被废弃，近于咒诅，结局就是焚烧。

I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.

我心中不存忿怒，惟愿荆棘蒺藜与我交战，我就勇往直前，把一同焚烧。

Even if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers, and thorns will overrun their tents.

看哪，逃避灾难，埃及人必收殓尸首，摩弗人必葬埋骸骨，用银子作美物上必长蒺藜，帐棚中必生荆棘。

The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day God visits you has come, the day your watchmen sound the alarm. Now is the time of your confusion.

最好，不过是蒺藜；最正直，不过是荆棘篱笆。你守望者说，降罚日子已经到，必扰乱不安。