Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.
Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; they shall fall, and never rise up again.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?
Pit » Figurative
They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah
Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not according to thy law.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
Serpent » Subtlety of
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Thorns and'snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; But the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; they shall fall, and never rise up again.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?