Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.
Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence her in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.
Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they what it is to blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall stumble, 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! even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your daughters-in-law for their committing adultery; for they themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: and the people that doth not understand shall come to ruin.
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Do men fall, and not rise up? Doth one turn away, and not return?
Pit » Figurative
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.
Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, shall himself fall into his own pit; but the perfect shall inherit good.
And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
Let not the flood of waters overflow 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, which is 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 her, upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
Serpent » Subtlety of
And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, shall himself fall into his own pit; but the perfect shall inherit good.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself 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 shall sing and rejoice.
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.
Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they what it is to blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall stumble, 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! even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.
He that diggeth a pit falleth into it; and whoso breaketh down a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your daughters-in-law for their committing adultery; for they themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: and the people that doth not understand shall come to ruin.
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Do men fall, and not rise up? Doth one turn away, and not return?