Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Hedge
"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:
Thy lords are as the grasshoppers, and thy captains as the multitude of grasshoppers: which when they be cold, remain in the hedges: but when the Sun is up, they flee away, and no man can tell where they are become.
Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.
"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:
Hedges » Danger of breaking through
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Insecurity of the wicked » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of a harlot is a deep pit; wherein he falleth that the LORD is angry withal.
Therefore they must be ashamed, for they have committed abomination. But how should they be ashamed, when they know nothing, neither of shame nor good nurture? And therefore they shall fall among the slain; and in the hour when I shall visit them, they shall be brought down," sayeth the LORD.
yea even they that swear in the offense of Samaria, and say, 'As truly as thy God liveth at Dan, and as truly as thy God liveth at Beersheba' These shall fall, and never rise up again."
The righteousness of the innocent ordereth his way; but the ungodly shall fall in his own wickedness.
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
I will not punish your daughters for being defiled, and your brides that became whores: seeing the fathers themselves have meddled with harlots, and offered with unthriftiness: but the people that will not understand must be punished.
"This shalt thou say unto them also: Thus sayeth the LORD, Do men fall also, that they arise not up again? And turn they so far away, that they never convert?
Pit » Figurative
They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into it themselves. Selah.
Whoso leadeth the righteous in to an evil way, shall fall into his own pit; but the just shall have the good in possession.
He brought me out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay; he set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings.
For a whore is a deep grave, and a harlot is a narrow pit.
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others. For his travail shall come upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.
Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
Whoso diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein; and he that weltereth a stone, shall stumble upon it himself.
Whoso escapeth the fear, shall fall in the pit: and whoso getteth out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring a year of visitation upon Moab, sayeth the LORD.
Serpent » Subtlety of
But the serpent was subtler than all the beasts of the field which the LORD God had made; and said unto the woman, "Ah sir, that God hath said, ye shall not eat of all manner trees in the garden."
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wolves: Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Serpents » Infest » Hedges
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Snared
Whoso leadeth the righteous in to an evil way, shall fall into his own pit; but the just shall have the good in possession.
The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Spears and snares are in the way of the froward; but he that will keep his soul, let him flee from such.
Whoso diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein; and he that weltereth a stone, shall stumble upon it himself.
The sin of the wicked is his own snare, but the righteous shall be glad and rejoice.
And many shall stumble, fall, and be broken upon him: yea they shall be snared and taken."
The wicked » Devices of » Fall of the wicked foretold
The mouth of a harlot is a deep pit; wherein he falleth that the LORD is angry withal.
Therefore they must be ashamed, for they have committed abomination. But how should they be ashamed, when they know nothing, neither of shame nor good nurture? And therefore they shall fall among the slain; and in the hour when I shall visit them, they shall be brought down," sayeth the LORD.
yea even they that swear in the offense of Samaria, and say, 'As truly as thy God liveth at Dan, and as truly as thy God liveth at Beersheba' These shall fall, and never rise up again."
The righteousness of the innocent ordereth his way; but the ungodly shall fall in his own wickedness.
But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
I will not punish your daughters for being defiled, and your brides that became whores: seeing the fathers themselves have meddled with harlots, and offered with unthriftiness: but the people that will not understand must be punished.
"This shalt thou say unto them also: Thus sayeth the LORD, Do men fall also, that they arise not up again? And turn they so far away, that they never convert?