Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.
And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.
Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.
The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.
Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?
Pit » Figurative
They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.
He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.
Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.
The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.
He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.
He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
Serpent » Subtlety of
Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.
The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.
He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.
In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.
And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.
Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.
The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.
Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?