“thorns and thistles” (Gen 3:18). Synonyms represent Yahweh’s punishment in, for example, Is 5:6; 6:11–13; 7:22–25; 27:4; 32:13; they often imply the threat of exile. Though the vocabulary is often different in each passage, the ideas overlap. The real “exile” for humanity, the real leaving-home event, was Yahweh’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden (Gen 3:23–24). Israel’s restoration, then, prefigures the hope of the final homecoming, when all believers will be raised from the dead