Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country:
Your princes are like the locusts, and your officials like the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges on the cold day, but when the sun arises 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 its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made a highway.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so that she shall not find her paths.
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of immoral women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD 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 punish them they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, The way of Beersheba lives; even 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 digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for the men themselves are gone apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: therefore the people that do not understand shall fall.
Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?
Pit » Figurative
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dug a pit before me, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Whosoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.
For a harlot is a deep ditch; and a seductress is a narrow well.
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown.
Let not the floodwater overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
The proud have dug pits for me, which is not after your law.
Whosoever digs a pit shall fall in it: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.
He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their punishment, says the LORD.
Serpent » Subtlety of
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, has God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
Whosoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.
Whosoever digs a pit shall fall in it: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.
In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing and rejoice.
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of immoral women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD 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 punish them they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, The way of Beersheba lives; even 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 digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for the men themselves are gone apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: therefore the people that do not understand shall fall.
Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?